A Challenging Diagnosis: Legionella feeleii Serotype 2 Pneumonia in a Man with Chronic
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A Challenging Diagnosis: Legionella feeleii Serotype 2 Pneumonia in a Man with Chronic 1 Lymphocytic Leukemia 2 3 Marc O Siegel 1 *, Daniel P Fedorko 2 , Steven K Drake 2 , Leslie B Calhoun 2 , Steven M 4 Holland 3 5 1 Division of Infectious Diseases, George Washington University Medical Center, 2150 6 Pennsylvannia Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20037 7 2 Department of Laboratory Medicine, Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center, National 8 Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 9 3 Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious 10 Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 11 12 Running title: Legionella feeleii serotype 2 pneumonia 13 14 Word Count: 2,265 15 Corresponding Author: Marc Siegel, MD 16 George Washington Medical Center 17 Division of Infectious Disease 18 2150 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW 19 Washington, DC 20037 20 (202) 741-2165 (tel) 21 (202) 741-2241 (fax) 22 [email protected] 23 Copyright © 2010, American Society for Microbiology and/or the Listed Authors/Institutions. All Rights Reserved. J. Clin. Microbiol. doi:10.1128/JCM.00176-10 JCM Accepts, published online ahead of print on 31 March 2010
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