| use of polymerase chain reaction in an epidemiologic investigation of pontiac fever. | in june 1992, 13 (38%) of 34 resort guests experienced illness that met a symptom-based case definition of pontiac fever. each ill guest reported using an indoor hot tub compared with 6 (29%) of 21 nonill guests (p < .001). water samples from the indoor hot tub were culture-negative for legionellae using standard techniques, coculture with amebae, and intraperitoneal inoculation of guinea pigs. however, polymerase chain reaction (pcr) testing of the water samples indicated the presence of legion ... | 1993 | 8354920 |
| restaurant outbreak of legionnaires' disease associated with a decorative fountain: an environmental and case-control study. | from june to november 2005, 18 cases of community-acquired legionnaires' disease (ld) were reported in rapid city south dakota. we conducted epidemiologic and environmental investigations to identify the source of the outbreak. | 2007 | 17688692 |
| combined plasmid and peptide analysis of clinical and environmental legionella pneumophila strains associated with a small cluster of legionnaires' disease cases. | plasmid and peptide analysis was used to characterize legionella pneumophila strains isolated in the study of a small cluster of cases in hospitalized patients. the isolates from the denver veterans' administration medical center could be clearly separated into three groups. two of the three clinical isolates were found to be plasmidless, as were five of 19 environmental isolates. the patient isolates had plasmid and peptide profiles which were identical to the showerhead isolates to which each ... | 1985 | 4044043 |
| whole-genome sequence of the human pathogen legionella pneumophila serogroup 12 strain 570-co-h. | we present the genomic sequence of the human pathogen legionella pneumophila serogroup 12 strain 570-co-h (atcc 43290), a clinical isolate from the colorado department of health, denver, co. this is the first example of a genome sequence of l. pneumophila from a serogroup other than serogroup 1. we highlight the similarities and differences relative to six genome sequences that have been reported for serogroup 1 strains. | 2012 | 22374950 |