Терапевтический архив (Jul 2011)

A case of legionellesis pneumonia verified by isolation of legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 from bronchoalveolar lavage treated with levofloxacine and tigecycline

  • Gennadiy Martinovich Galstyan,
  • Mikhail Yur'evich Drokov,
  • Svetlana Aleksandrovna Katrysh,
  • Galina Aleksandrovna Klyasova,
  • Elena Aleksandrovna Gilyazitdinova,
  • Tat'yana Igorevna Karpova,
  • Boris Ivanovich Marakusha,
  • Igor' Semenovich Tartakovskiy,
  • G M Galstyan,
  • M Yu Drokov,
  • S A Katrysh,
  • G A Klyasova,
  • E A Gilyazitdinova,
  • T I Karpova,
  • B I Marakusha,
  • I S Tartakovsky

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 83, no. 7
pp. 61 – 65

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A male patient received non-chemotherapeutic drugs which induced deep neutropenia complicated with sepsis, bilateral pneumonia, acute respiratory insufficiency. Artificial pulmonary ventilation was applied. The examination of bronchoalveolar lavage showed the presence of the culture L. pneumophila (serogroup 1) in a concentration 2x103 CFU/ml. Antibacterial therapy with levofloxacin in a dose 1000 mg/day was conducted. In a week not only L.pneumophila but also Acinetobacter baumanii was isolated from bronchoalveolar lavage. Tigecyclin was added to levofloxacin treatment. Two air cavities were found in the left lung. The treatment reduced the size of these cavities, infiltrative changes in the lungs and respiratory insufficiency regressed. The patient was discharged from hospital. This case is the first case in Russia of L.pneumophila isolation from bronchoalveolar lavage. The case is also characterized by use of tigecycline for treatment of combined legionella and akinetobacterial infection and cavities in the lungs in legionella pneumonia.

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