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Community Acquired Legionnaire’s Disease in a Kidney Transplant Patient

Published:2018-12-01 Issue:2-3 Volume:39 Page:45-49
ISSN:1857-8985
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Author:

Kirincich Jason¹,Sakic Zrinka¹,Atic Armin¹,Basic-Jukic Nikolina¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Nephrology, Arterial Hypertension, Dialysis and Transplantation , University Hospital Centre Zagreb , Zagreb , Croatia

Abstract

Abstract This case report details the clinical picture of a renal transplant recipient infected with community acquired Legionella pneumonia. While it is more commonly associated as a nosocomial infection due to pathogenic organisms in a hospital’s water supply, this case serves as a reminder to consider the patient’s impaired cellular immune function when trying to diagnose community acquired pneumonia.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

General Medicine

Link

https://www.sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/prilozi-2018-0041

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