Case report
Legionnaires' disease: A cause of severe abscess-forming pneumonia

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Abstract

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.

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1

From the Infectious Disease and Immunology Division, Department of Medicine, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York.

2

From the Infectious Disease Division, Departments of Medicine and Pathology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.

3

From the Departments of Medicine and Pathology, St. Johns Episcopal Hospital, Brooklyn, New York.

4

From the Research Service, Wadsworth Veterans Administration Hospital, Los Angeles, California.

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