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Mixed infection by Legionella pneumophila in outbreak patients.
International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM - 1 May 2014
Coscollá Mireia, Fernández Carmen, Colomina Javier, Sánchez-Busó Leonor, González-Candelas Fernando
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During the molecular epidemiological study of a legionellosis outbreak, we obtained sequence based typing (SBT) profiles from uncultured respiratory samples of 15 affected patients. We detected several distinct allelic profiles some of which were a mixture of alleles present in the more common profiles. Chromatograms from the sequences of one patient with mixed profile showed polymorphisms in several positions,...
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