A hospital-associated outbreak of Legionnaires' disease caused by Legionella pneumophila serogroups 4 and 10 with a common genetic fingerprinting pattern

APMIS

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 210-217

  Bernander, Sverker ^a   Jacobson, Kerstin ^b   Lundholm, Monica ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

AFLP; Fingerprinting; Legionella pneumophila; Outbreak

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOSPITAL BUILDING; HUMAN; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WATER SAMPLING;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEROTYPING;

EID: 2542609841     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2004.apm1120307.x     Document Type: Article

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