Two cases of Legionnaires’ disease due to <i>Legionella cardiaca</i>
These results suggest that <i>L. cardiaca</i> is an opportunistic pathogen and may cause pneumonia, or Legionnaires' disease, in immunocompromised patients. Culture with BCYE agar and gene sequencing analysis may be required to recover and identify the bacterium for an etiologic diagnosis.
Authors
- Diwakar D. Balachandran (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-9388)
- Xiang Y. Han (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8472-0870)
- Christopher Bowman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2425-2603)
- Micah M. Bhatti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5857-5825)
Institutions
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- ASM Case Reports
- Published
- 2024-12-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1128/asmcr.00043-24
- Primary Topic
- Legionella and Acanthamoeba research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00