(a.) Belonging to a legion; consisting of a legion or legions, or of an indefinitely great number; as, legionary soldiers; a legionary force.
(n.) A member of a legion.
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Legionnaire
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(1) The annual number of confirmed cases of Legionnaires' disease in both Nottingham, and England and Wales, reached a peak in 1980 and has since declined.
(2) Neurologic symptoms are common in Legionnaires' disease, but the pathogenesis of these symptoms is not known.
(3) We suggest that in hairy cell leukaemia both monocytopenia and defective functions of monocytes underlie the increased susceptibility to intracellular infections including Legionnaires' disease.
(4) These persistent high titres make the serologic diagnosis of Legionnaires' disease difficult.
(5) From June 1989 to March 1990 there were eight cases of Legionnaires' disease caused by Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 in a renal transplant unit.
(6) Nosocomial Legionnaires disease can be acquired by exposure to the organism from the hospital water distribution system.
(7) This report draws attention to: (1) the fact that bacteriological filters do not ensure absolute security; (2) the need for frequent monitoring of the two factors governing legionella growth, water temperature and chlorination; and (3) the effectiveness of quinolones as a curative and prophylactic treatment of legionnaires' disease in transplanted patients avoiding pharmacological cyclosporin interaction.
(8) Legionnaires' disease may cause severe multisystem damage.
(9) In 21 of 30 patients with Legionnaires' disease, L pneumophila was isolated from respiratory specimens.
(10) When we consider those indications, Legionnaires' disease might be one of the typical infectious disease to show the benefits of the DNA probe method in diagnosis.
(11) The incidence of Legionnaire's disease is probably underestimated in France.
(12) In January 1977 an unsolved outbreak of infection at St. Elizabeth's Hospital (Washington, D.C.) that occurred in 1965 was linked with Legionnaires' disease.
(13) Serology remains the most commonly used method in the diagnosis of Legionnaires' disease.
(14) We conclude that antigens are excreted in the urine of at least some patients with Legionnaires' disease caused by serogroup 4 and Leiden 1 strain.
(15) In 1979, an isolated case of legionnaires' disease in a 46 year old Caucasian male Ohio physician was reported.
(16) All Legionnaires' disease (LD) patients were in the hospital before onset of illness (median time from admission to onset, 17 days; range, 3 to 276 days).
(17) The diagnosis was established serologically by a 32-fold rise in antibody titer to the agent of Legionnaires' disease.
(18) Therefore, it is essential to include legionnaires' disease into the diagnostics of pneumonia of unknown origin.
(19) The results of this study suspected that acute feverish disease and pneumonia of compromised host such as hemodialysis patients should be always thought of Legionnaires' infection.
(20) A rapidly progressive, crescentic glomerulonephritis with acute oliguric renal failure occurred simultaneously with legionnaires' disease (LD) in a 52-year-old man.