| molecular epidemiology of an outbreak of legionnaires' disease associated with a cooling tower in genova-sestri ponente, italy. | fatty acid profile analysis, monoclonal antibody (mab) subtyping, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (pfge), arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction (ap-pcr), and ribotyping were used to compare clinical and environmental legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 isolates from an outbreak of legionnaires' disease presumptively associated with cooling towers. according to the oxford subtyping scheme, the mab subtype of patients' isolates and of two strains originating from a cooling tower was pontiac ... | 1997 | 9495668 |