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Nosocomial Legionnaires' disease caused by Legionella pneumophila serogroup 6: implication of the sequence-based typing method (SBT).
Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2007
Fendukly Faiz, Bernander Sverker, Hanson Hanna-Stina
Abstract excerpt
Sequence-based typing (SBT) was used to determine the allelic profiles of 3 sporadic clinical isolates as well as 7 environmental isolates of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 6, isolated at the Karolinska Hospital during 2004. The clinical isolates were cultured from patients with nosocomial Legionnaires' disease (LD), while the environmental isolates were cultured from potable water sources of the hospital wards...
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