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Legionnaire's disease

Legionnaire's disease Meaning & Definition
Legionnaire's disease Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Legionnaire's disease?

[n] acute (sometimes fatal) lobar pneumonia caused by bacteria of a kind first recognized after an outbreak of the disease at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in 1976; characterized by fever and muscle and chest pain and headache and chills and a dry cough

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See Also | lobar pneumonia

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