Relapse of Legionella longbeachae infection in an immunocompromised patient
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N G van't Hullenaar1, R J van Ketel, E J Kuijper
1Department of Pulmonology, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The Netherlands Journal of Medicine
|November 1, 1996
Abstract:
We describe the first known case of Legionella longbeachae infection in the Netherlands in a patient with myasthenia gravis. Infection with L. longbeachae relapsed after prolonged therapy with erythromycin. No environmental source of L. longbeachae could be traced.