Tucumán: a man died from bilateral pneumonia and there are already five fatal cases

According to what the provincial Ministry of Public Health reported, a patient “linked to the cluster of cases of pneumonia” bilateral registered in Tucumán died in the last hours, so there are already five fatalities due to this cause. The party reported that “it is a 64-year-old male patient with comorbidities who was hospitalized in serious condition in the public sector.” The Minister of Health of the Nation, Carla Vizzotti, said that the outbreak of bilateral pneumonia was caused by a bacterium called Legionella, based on the results of the studies carried out on the samples sent from Tucumán to the National Administration of Laboratories and Institutes of Health “Dr. Carlos Malbrán”. In four samples, three respiratory samples and a puncture biopsy of one of the deceased, a bacterium called legionella is being isolated in the PCR and its surname is being typified,” Vizzotti said. The suspicion is that it is an outbreak of Legionella Pneumophila,” he said, and clarified that “progress remains in what would be the final diagnosis,” Vizzotti expanded at a press conference at the Ministry of Health of Tucumán.La national official said that “it is a bacterium that is transmitted by inhalation through water or air conditioning” and added that “it has an antibiotic treatment and an important resistance in people at risk, over 50 years, smokers, diabetics and people with immunocompromising or respiratory diseases”. So far, eleven people affected by bilateral pneumonia caused by Legionella have been registered at the private clinic Luz Médica, of which five have died.

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