Bozzoni M, Radice L, Frosi A, Vezzoli S, Cuboni A, Vezzoli F
USSL 65 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Medicine, Milan, Italy.
Respiration. 1995;62(6):331-5. doi: 10.1159/000196475.
We studied 177 patients with pneumonia admitted to an internal medicine department over a period of 3 years to determine the incidence of two emerging pathogens, Legionella pneumophila and Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Clinical, radiological and laboratory tests were performed and included blood cultures, serology, gram staining and sputum cultures. L. pneumophila was the agent involved in 9 patients (5.1%) and M. pneumoniae in 12 (6.8%). These prevalences were about in the middle of the range of previously published figures. Legionella pneumonia is a rare illness, which even in the absence of suggestive clinical signs must be considered because of its possibly serious course and to allow appropriate therapeutic decisions to be made.
我们对三年内内科收治的177例肺炎患者进行了研究，以确定两种新出现的病原体——嗜肺军团菌和肺炎支原体的发病率。进行了临床、放射学和实验室检查，包括血培养、血清学、革兰氏染色和痰培养。嗜肺军团菌感染9例患者（5.1%），肺炎支原体感染12例患者（6.8%）。这些患病率约处于先前公布数据范围的中间。军团菌肺炎是一种罕见疾病，即使没有提示性临床体征也必须予以考虑，因为其病程可能严重，以便做出适当的治疗决策。
