Cases of pneumonia caused by legionella pneumophila in Bahrain

ABSTRACT

Between January 1985 and August 1986, eighty patients with pneumonia admitted to Salmaniya Medical Centre were examined for antibodies to Legionella pneumophila by the indirect immunoflourescent technique. Four patients had titres of >/= 1128 which by the criteria of the Association of Clinical Pathologists [A.C.P.] were provisionally diagnosed as cases of Legionnaires' disease. There were no fatalities among the cases, two of which responded to ampicillin, one to ampicillin combined with cloxacillin and gentamicin and the fourth only to erythromycin