Legionnaire's disease

Question 1

What is the main cause of leigonnaire’s disease?

Answer 1

Legionella pneumophilia

Question 2

What type of organism is Legionella pneumophilia?

Answer 2

Intracellular bacterium

Question 3

What does legionella pneumophilia typically colonize?

Answer 3

Water tanks

Question 4

How does legionella pneumophilia not spread?

Answer 4

Person to person

Question 5

What might you see in someone’s history that could indicate legionnaire’s disease?

Answer 5

Air-conditioning systems or foreign holidays.

Question 6

What are the mian symptoms of Legionnaire’s disease?

Answer 6

flu-like symptoms including fever
dry cough
relative bradycardia
confusion
lymphopaenia
hyponatraemia
deranged liver function tests
pleural effusion

Question 7

What would be deranged in someone with legionnaire’s disease?

Answer 7

LFT’s

Question 8

What would be low in someone with leigonnaire’s disease?

Answer 8

Sodium- hyponatraemia
HR- Bradycardia

Question 9

How is leigonnaire’s disease diagnosed?

Answer 9

Urinary antigen

Question 10

What is the management of leigonnaire’s disease?

Answer 10

Erythromycin/clarithromycin