| prevalence of legionellosis among adults: a study of community-acquired pneumonia in france. | over a 24-month period, 274 patients with community-acquired pneumonia were hospitalized in departments of medicine at hospitals in bordeaux, lyon, marseille, and toulouse. etiology of the pneumonia was determined either by organism identification or by indirect immunofluorescence in only 139 cases (51%). the most frequently isolated etiological agents were streptococcus pneumoniae (34 cases), legionella pneumophila (29 cases) and mycoplasma pneumoniae (24 cases). the majority of patients with l ... | 1987 | 3692603 |
| [legionnaire's disease: surveillance in france in 2005]. | legionnaire's disease is a recently described infection and surveillance in france was implemented in 1987. in 2005, 1,527 cases were notified corresponding to a population incidence rate of 2.5 per 100,000. the median age of cases was 61 years [5-100] and the male to female sex ratio was 3.0. the case fatality rate was 11%. one or more risk factors were identified for 1,084 (71%) cases. the majority of cases (91%) was diagnosed by urinary antigen detection and a strain was identified in 276 cas ... | 2007 | 17988811 |