legionnaires' disease
infectious disease characterized by severe form of infection producing pneumonia
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Summary
legionnaires' disease is a class of disease[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,814 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: symptom or sign[3]
- Named after: 1976 Philadelphia legionellosis outbreak[4]
- Subclass of: legionellosis[5], atypical pneumonia[6], bacterial pneumonia[7], rare respiratory disease[8], infectious disease[9], notifiable disease[10]
- Commons category: Legionnaires' disease[11]
- ICPC 2 ID: R81[12]
- Symptoms and signs: headache[13], fever[14], cough[15], myalgia[16], chills[17], pneumonia[18]
- Has cause: Legionella pneumophila[19]
- Topic's main category: Category:Legionellosis[20]
- Medical examination: complete blood count[21], chest radiograph[22], computed tomography[23], microbiological culture[24], immunofluorescence microscopy[25], ELISA[26], polymerase chain reaction[27]
- Possible treatment: antibiotic[28], oxygen therapy[29], detoxification[30]
- Topic has template: Template:Legionnaires' disease[31]
- ICD-9-CM: 482.84[32]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C128339[33]
- Health specialty: infectious diseases[34], pulmonology[35]
- Drug or therapy used for treatment: erythromycin[36], troleandomycin[37], levofloxacin[38], levofloxacin hemihydrate[39], moxifloxacin[40], gatifloxacin[41], azithromycin[42], doxycycline[43], ciprofloxacin[44]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_10457[45], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:10457[46]
- Maximal incubation period in humans: 16 day[47]
- Minimal incubation period in humans: 2 day[48]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[49]
Why It Matters
legionnaires' disease has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[50] It is known by 86 alternative names across languages and contexts.[51]