Legionnaires disease pneumonia

It is a lung infection caused by Legionella pneumophila (gram-negative bacillus). The mild type has only influenza-like symptoms, and the severe forms pneumonia, often accompanied by extrapulmonary symptoms, also known as Legionella.

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