Medical Dictionary
Legionnaires' disease
noun
Medical Definition of LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE
: pneumonia that is caused by a bacterium of the genus Legionella (L. pneumophila), that is characterized initially by symptoms resembling influenza (as malaise, headache, and muscular aches) followed by high fever, cough, diarrhea, lobar pneumonia, and mental confusion, and that may be fatal especially in elderly and immunocompromised individuals—see pontiac fever
Variants of LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE
Legionnaires' disease also Legionnaire's disease
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