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Cutaneous legionellosis: case report and review of the medical literature.

[legionellosis]

Discrete nodules developed on the leg of a 27-year-old immunosuppressed woman after an allogeneic stem cell transplant. Biopsy and culture grew Legionella pneumophila serogroup 8. On day 7 of azithromycin treatment, respiratory distress and abnormal liver transaminases developed, and the patient died on day 14. Review of the medical literature identified 19 reports of Legionella species-associated skin or soft tissue infections (total of 20 patients, 13 with confirmed infection). Manifestations of the 13 confirmed cases included erythematous macular rash (n = 7), erythema after thoracentesis (n = 1), abscess formation (n = 4), respiratory symptoms (n = 6), and abnormal chest radiographs (n = 8). Six required surgical exploration and débridement, and 7 were immunocompromised. Rash and respiratory infection improved with antibiotics in 10, but 3 died. Immunosuppression may predispose transplant recipients to Legionella infections. Diagnostic biopsies may facilitate appropriate treatment.

Diseases presenting "respiratory distress" symptom

  • cohen syndrome
  • congenital diaphragmatic hernia
  • cutaneous mastocytosis
  • dentinogenesis imperfecta
  • erdheim-chester disease
  • familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia
  • harlequin ichthyosis
  • heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
  • junctional epidermolysis bullosa
  • legionellosis
  • locked-in syndrome
  • neuralgic amyotrophy
  • scrub typhus
  • systemic capillary leak syndrome
  • typhoid

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