Legionnaire's Disease

Definition: Legionnaire's Disease

Legionnaire's Disease

Noun

1. Acute (sometimes fatal) lobar pneumonia caused by bacteria of a kind first recognized after an outbreak of the disease at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in 1976; characterized by fever and muscle and chest pain and headache and chills and a dry cough.

Specialty Definitions: Legionnaire's Disease

Domain	Definitions
Health	A severe form of pneumonia caused by a previously unrecognized bacterium which is now called Legionella. The disease owes its name to an epidemic that occurred in a hotel during a convention of American legionnaires. (references)
Personal Care & Hotels	An acute infectious disease with prodromal influenza-like symptoms and rapidly rising high fever, followed by severe pneumonia and production of usually nonpurulent sputum, mental confusion, hepatic fatty changes and renal tubular degeneration. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Photo Album: Legionnaire's Disease

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	Legionnaire's disease is an acute and sometimes fatal respiratory illness caused by the Legionella pneumophila bacterium. Headache, high fever, cough, and flu-like symptoms accompany the condition.Credit: CDC.		Here Dr. David Sencer is addressing media personnel at a press conference on Legionnaire's Disease in August, 1976.Credit: CDC.
	Press conference on Legionnaire's disease held at CDC, Atlanta, GA. Dr. David Sencer, Director, CDC, at podium.Credit: CDC.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Legionnaire's Disease

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Infections in the immunocompetent which might present with a non-specific prodrome leading to acute cardiopulmonary deterioration as in HPS include leptospirosis, Legionnaire's disease, mycoplasma, Q fever, chlamydia, and in regions where the organisms are present, septicemic plague, tularemia, coccidioidomycosis and histoplasmosis. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Modern Translations: Legionnaire's Disease

Language		Translations for "Legionnaire's disease"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		legionærsyge. (various references)

Dutch		legionairsziekte (Legionnaires'disease), veteranenziekte (Legionnaires'disease). (various references)

Finnish		legioonalaistauti, legionelloosi. (various references)

French		légionellose, maladie du légionnaire. (various references)

German		Legionärskrankheit (Legionnaires'disease). (various references)

Greek		η νόσος των λεγεωνάριων. (various references)

Italian		morbo dei legionari. (various references)

Pig Latin		egionnaire'slay iseaseday

Portuguese		doença do legionário. (various references)

Spanish		enfermedad del legionario. (various references)

Swedish		legionärsjukan. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.