Legionellosis differential diagnosis
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Yazan Daaboul, M.D.
Overview
Legionnaires' disease must be differentiated from other causes of fever, dyspnea, cough, and sputum production, such as bacterial pnuemonia, viral pneumonia, other causes of atypical pnuemonia, and congestive heart failure.
Differentiating Legionellosis from other Diseases
Legionnaires' disease should be differentiated from the following diseases:
- Congestive heart failure
- Interstitial pneumonia
- Mycoplasma pneumonia
- Pneumococcal pneumonia
- Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia
- Pulmonary embolism
- Streptococcal pneumonia
- Viral pneumonia
- Q fever