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Legionnaires’ disease is a form of pneumonia, caused by bacteria of the genus Legionella. In contrast, Pontiac fever is a self-limited influenza-like illness, without pneumonia, that is associated with Legionella spp too. The name of this infection is in reference to an outbreak of pneumonia that affected 221 people and caused 34 deaths during the 58th American Legion Convention celebrated in Philadelphia during the summer of 1976 [1]. Epidemiologically, the Philadelphia outbreak was similar in many aspects to two large outbreaks of febrile disease, one in 1965 (District of Columbia) and the other in 1968 (Pontiac, Michigan). The Columbia outbreak involved patients in a large psychiatric hospital in which there were 81 cases and 12 deaths [2]. The Pontiac outbreak was very different, of the 144 documented cases neither death nor pneumonia were demonstrated.
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Bodí, M., Porras, J.A. (2001). Severe Legionellosis. In: Rello, J., Valles, J., Kollef, M.H. (eds) Critical Care Infectious Diseases Textbook. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1679-8_38
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