Sequence based typing and pre-absorption test in retrospective analysis of a pseudo-outbreak of Legionella infections differentiates true cases of legionellosis

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 437-443

  Pancer, Katarzyna ^a   Jahnz Rózyk, Karina ^b   Kucharczyk, Aleksandra ^b   Gut, Włodzimierz ^a   Kucharczyk, Piotr ^b   Elverdal, Pernille L ^c   Litwińska, Bogumiła ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE   (Poland)

^b MILITARY INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE   (Poland)

^c STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

False positive results; Legionella serology; Legionellosis; Pre absorption test; Pseudo outbreak; Sequence base typing

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CROSS REACTION; DNA EXTRACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE BASED TYPING; SEROCONVERSION;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONELLOSIS; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; YOUNG ADULT;

LEGIONELLA;

EID: 84866641212     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: 18982263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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