legionnaires disease, legionnaires' disease, Legionnaires' disease, legionnaire's disease, Legionnaire's disease, LD, legionellosis
Legionella pneumophila tekitatud raske pneumoonia (tõeline legionelloos), an acute, sometimes fatal, bacterial disease caused by infection with Legionella pneumophila, not spread by person-to-person contact, that is characterized by pneumonia, high fever, gastrointestinal pain, headache, and sometimes involvement of the kidneys, liver or nervous system, a serious, sometimes fatal, infection, caused by the bacterium Legionella pneumophila, which has symptoms similar to those of pneumonia: believed to be spread by inhalation of contaminated water vapour from showers and air-conditioning plants
