Comparative features of pneumococcal, mycoplasmal, and Legionnaires' disease pneumonias. Annals of internal medicine. [Ann Intern Med] Journal article

Title	Comparative features of pneumococcal, mycoplasmal, and Legionnaires' disease pneumonias.
Author(s)	Helms CM, Viner JP, Sturm RH, Renner ED, Johnson W
Source	Ann Intern Med 1979 Apr; 90(4):543-7.
MeSH	Adult Aged Aspartate Aminotransferases Comparative Study Confusion Diagnosis, Differential Diarrhea Female Fever Hematuria Humans Legionnaires' Disease Male Middle Aged Mycoplasma Infections Pneumonia Pneumonia, Pneumococcal
Abstract	Retrospectively, we clinically compared community-acquired cases of Legionnaires' disease, pneumococcal, and mycoplasmal pneumonias. Relative to pneumococcal and mycoplasmal pneumonias, patients with Legionnaires' disease were significantly more likely to present with unexplained encephalopathy, hematuria, and elevation of serum glutamic-oxalacetic transaminase than were those with pneumococcal and mycoplasmal pneumonias. We found upper respiratory symptoms infrequently in patients with Legionnaires' disease, and progression of pulmonary infiltrates occurred commonly. Differentiation of Legionnaires' disease pneumonia without encephalopathy from pneumococcal and mycoplasmal pneumonias may be difficult because of demographic, clinical, laboratory, and radiographic similarities.
Language	eng
Pub Type(s)	Journal Article
PubMed ID	434631

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