Legionnaires' disease. A cause of severe abscess-forming pneumonia.

Lewin S, Brettman L R, Goldstein E J, Holzman R S, Devila H, Taubman F, Sierra M F, Edelstein P H

Am J Med. 1979 Aug;67(2):339-42. doi: 10.1016/0002-9343(79)90411-x.

In two previously well nonsmokers fatal pneumonia developed with extensive abscess formation. Legionnaires' bacillus was the only pathogen isolated. These cases indicate that Legionnaires' bacillus is capable of causing extensive necrosis of the lung.