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==Overview==


==Risk Factors==
==Risk Factors==

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Risk Factors

Risk factors for Legionellosis are:

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Weaker immune system from the following also increases the risk of Legionella infection:

The following patients should be tested for Legionnaires' disease:

  • Hospitalized patients with enigmatic pneumonia
  • Patients with enigmatic pneumonia sufficiently severe to require care in the ICU
  • Compromised host with pneumonia
  • Patients with pneumonia in the setting of a legionellosis outbreak
  • Patients who fail to respond to treatment to a ß-lactam or cephalosporin
  • Patients with a travel history [patients that have traveled away from their home within two weeks before the onset of illness.]
  • Patients suspected of nosocomial pneumonia with unknown etiology

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