Pontiac fever

The best known example is Legionella, a bacterium that causes Legionnaires Disease and Pontiac Fever. 

Legionella bacteria may also cause other forms of legionellosis such as Pontiac fever, which is a short, self-limited, flulike illness that has no long-term effects. Pontiac fever develops rapidly (5 hours to 3 days) and lasts for 3 to 5 days. (The attack rate is high, typically some 95%.) It produces headaches, nausea, vomiting, aching muscles, and a cough, but no pneumonia develops. 

Pontiac fever is a less serious non-pneumonic form of the disease. 

Building-related illness. One or more occupants develop a chnically diagnosed disease that may be related to the occupant s presence in the building. Examples include humidifier fever, asthma, hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Legionnaires disease, and Pontiac fever. 

Employee health may be adversely affected by indoor air contaminants including environmental tobacco smoke, volatile organic compounds, bioeffluents, microbial allergens, and Legionella (a bacterium). Some of these contaminants can cause discomfort eye, nose, and throat irritation humidifier fever and hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Legionella can cause Legionnaires disease and Pontiac fever. Some contaminants may be carcinogenic. 

Legionella pneumophila Legionellosis Legionnaires disease pneumonia, fever, cough, chills, headache, loss of appetite, diarrhea pontiac fever fever, headache, myalgia, malaise Inhalation of aerosols contaminated with the bacteria... 

There was minimal confirmation of the original DFA/Legionella spp. findings. Undoubtedly, without the clinical symptoms, the diagnosis of Pontiac Fever would not have been made surely, there is ample evidence for the environmental ubiquity of Legionella spp. (Fliermans et al., 1979, 1981 Orrison et al., 1981). 

Because of the importance of the outbreak of Pontiac Fever and the concomitant evidence for Legionella spp.- in three locations in the affected areas, we evaluated the relationship of these putative legionellae to the other dominant species in those systems. These data are seen in Tables 3, 4, and 5. The Legionella bozemanii and... 

P.W., Moss, C.W., Wilkinson, H., Brenner, D.J., Steigerwalt, A.G., and Broome, C.V. (1984). A new Legionella species, Legionella feeleii species nova, causes Pontiac Fever in automobile plant. 

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