Ching W T, Meyer R D
Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, UCLA School of Medicine.
Infect Dis Clin North Am. 1987 Sep;1(3):595-614.
Legionnaires' disease is a distinct clinical entity caused by Legionella pneumophila. Following an epidemic of pneumonia in Philadelphia in 1976, it was found that the bacterium had in fact been first isolated in 1947. Other species of Legionella have been identified, many of which are indistinguishable from L. pneumophila infection. Legionella species also cause extrapulmonary infections and a mild nonpneumonic form of disease known in its epidemic form as Pontiac Fever.
军团病是由嗜肺军团菌引起的一种独特的临床病症。1976年费城发生肺炎疫情后，人们发现这种细菌实际上早在1947年就已首次分离出来。已鉴定出军团菌的其他种类，其中许多与嗜肺军团菌感染难以区分。军团菌还会引起肺外感染以及一种轻微的非肺炎形式的疾病，其流行形式称为庞蒂亚克热。
