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Legionella pneumophila History In 1976 an outbreak of pneumonia, caused by the organism L. pneumophila, struck a group of elderly men attending an American Legion Convention in Philadelphia Pennsylvania[1]. The source of the bacterium suggested that contamination came from an environmental air source[1]. The organism was first isolating and identified a year later by Joseph McDade a CDC microbiologist.[2] McDade observed L. pneumophila in a section of liver from a guinea pig that had been inoculated with Legionnaires’ disease[1].
- ^ a b c Fraser, David W. “The Peculiarities of ‘Legionella.’” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 130, no. 3, 1986, pp. 330–335., www.jstor.org/stable/986831.
- ^ http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/the-latest/95585-40-years-later-scientist-who-first-discovered-legionnaires-disease-is-still-learning-lessons