Η ΝΟΣΟΣ ΤΩΝ ΛΕΓΕΩΝΑΡΙΩΝ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ

THIS IS A STUDY OF 136 CONSECUTIVE PNEUMONIAS ADMITTED FROM 1981 TO 1983 TO THEUNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE, HATZIKOSTA GENERAL HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA. THESE PNEUMONIAS WERE STUDIED PROSPECTIVELY IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY IF LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA IS A CAUSE OF PNEUMONIA IN GREECE, SINCE THERE HAS BEEN NO PREVIOUS STUDY ON THE SUBJECT. IN ORDER TO EVALUATE THE RELATIVE FREQUENCY OF LEGIONNAIRE'S DISEASE WE ALSO EXAMINED THE FREQUENCY OF PNEUMONIA SECONDARY TO MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAS, INFLUENZA AND PARAINFLUENZA VIRUSES, ADENOVIRUS AND COXIELLA BURNETTI. WE FOUND TWO PATIENTS WITH LEGIONNAIRE'S DISEASE AS SUGGESTED BY POSITIVE AND RISING TITERS OF ANTIBODIES AGAINST L.PNEUMOPHILA. ONE MORE PATIENT HAD POSITIVE BUT NOT INCREASING TITERS, INDICATING PREVIOUS INFECTION . WE ALSO HAD 4 PATIENTS WITH INFLUENZA AND ONE WITH COXIELLA BURNETTI PNEUMONIAS. WE ANALYZE THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL, CLINICAL, MICROBIOLOGICAL AND ROENTGENOLOGICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF THE DISEASE AND WE REVIEW THE LITERATURE ON THIS RECENTLY DESCRIBED ENTITY. OUR RESULTS INDICATE THAT LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA EXISTS IN GREECE AND IS NOT THAT INFREQUENT, COMPARED TO OTHER CAUSES OF "ATYPICAL" PNEUMONIAS.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Ioannina

Year dc:date

1986

Authors dc:creator

• Charalabopoulos, Konstantinos
• Χαραλαμπόπουλος, Κωνσταντίνος

• ΑΜΕΣΟΣ ΑΝΟΣΟΦΘΟΡΙΣΜΟΣ
• ΑΝΟΣΟΚΑΤΑΣΤΟΛΗ ΚΑΙ ΝΟΣΟΣ ΤΩΝΛΕΓΕΩΝΑΡΙΩΝ
• Έμμεσος ανοσοφθορισμός
• Ερυθρομυκίνη
• Νόσος λεγεωναρίων
• Παθολογία
• AIR CONDITION
• DIRECT IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST
• Erythromycin
• INDIRECT IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST
• LEGIONNAIRE'S DISEASE
• Ιατρική και Επιστήμες Υγείας
• Κλινική Ιατρική
• Επιστήμες Υγείας
• Medical and Health Sciences
• Clinical Medicine
• Health Sciences

Language dc:language

gre

Identifier

10.12681/eadd/0251

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:10442/0251