Pontiac fever
MONDO:0020487Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names Pontiac fever yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Pontiac fever (PF) is a mild form of legionellosis manifesting with flu-like symptoms such as nausea, myalgia, fever, cough and headache but without pneumonia.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0020487), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Features
5 features
What the disease is reported to present with, and how often among people who have it — never how often a feature means the disease. HPO, annotations 2026-09-02.
- FatigueHPOHP:0012378
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- FeverHPOHP:0001945
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- MyalgiaHPOHP:0003326
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- CoughHPOHP:0012735
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- HeadacheHPOHP:0002315
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
Where it sits
- A kind of