<i>Legionella pneumophila</i> as Cause of Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia, China
Huahua Yi, Jie Fang, Jingwen Huang, Bing Liu, Jieming Qu, Min Zhou
Emerging infectious diseases · 2019-12
Abstract
We report a case of community-acquired pneumonia in a patient in China. We verified Legionella pneumophila infection through next-generation sequencing of blood, sputum, and pleural effusion samples. Our results show the usefulness of next-generation sequencing and of testing different samples early in the course of illness to identify this bacterium.
MeSH terms
- Legionella pneumophila
- Pneumonia
- Legionella
- Sputum
- Pleural effusion
- Legionnaires' disease
- Medicine
- Microbiology
- Community-acquired pneumonia
- Biology
- Intensive care medicine
- Immunology