TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Legionnaires Disease A1 - Boslett, Bryn A. A1 - Bystritsky, Rachel A2 - Papadakis, Maxine A. A2 - McPhee, Stephen J. A2 - Rabow, Michael W. A2 - McQuaid, Kenneth R. PY - 2023 T2 - Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2023 AB - ESSENTIALS OF DIAGNOSISPatients are often immunocompromised, smoke cigarettes, or have chronic lung disease.Scant sputum production, pleuritic chest pain, toxic appearance.Chest radiograph: focal patchy infiltrates or consolidation.Gram stain of sputum: polymorphonuclear leukocytes and no organisms. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1193136651 ER -