| Literature DB >> 17108275 |
Sallene Wong1, Kanti Pabbaraju1, Veronica F Burk1, George C Broukhanski2, Julie Fox3,1, Tom Louie4, Manuel W Mah4, Kathryn Bernard5, Peter A G Tilley3,1.
Abstract
A fatal case of nosocomial legionellosis in a low prevalence region (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) prompted investigation into the source of infection. Hospital water systems contaminated with Legionella pneumophila have been shown to pose a risk to compromised patients. Typing of an L. pneumophila serogroup 1 strain isolated from the patient using sequence-based typing (SBT) and amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analysis linked it to a persistent and widespread strain isolated from the hospital water system establishing a nosocomial mode of acquisition. Different SBT and AFLP patterns were determined for non-epidemiologically linked cases and isolates from different hospitals.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID： 17108275 DOI： 10.1099/jmm.0.46754-0
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Med Microbiol ISSN： 0022-2615 Impact factor: 2.472