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This image was captured in 1977, and depicted Joseph E. McDade, PhD, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) epidemiologist, using a transmission light microscope, during a scientific investigation. It was Dr. McDade, who first isolated and identified, the bacterium that caused the July 1976 outbreak of Legionnaires' disease, an acute and sometimes-fatal respiratory illness caused by the bacterium, Legionella pneumophila.
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Creation Date: 1977
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