Resumen de Legionella y legionelosis
Consuelo Revert Gironés, Arturo Hardisson de la Torre, Juan Ignacio Reguera Useros, Carmen Rubio Armendáriz, J. Pagés
Legionellosis is a disease with an environmental origin frequently associated with pneumonia and produced by the bacterium Legionella pneumophila. It can be presented either in buds or in isolated cases. It seems to be a disease that is reemerging, but it has to be taken into account that this disease could have been unnoticed before the improvement in the present diagnostic methods. Given the Legionellosis buds that have recently occurred in Spain and their increasing incidence on the pneumonias acquired in the community, their high lethality on older people or people with a subjacent disease, the economic importance in tourist cities and the possibility of prevention by means of controlling the related facilities, we have considered of interest its divulgence.
