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Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 strain Paris: endemic distribution throughout France
Helena Aurell1, Jerome Etienne, Françoise Forey
1Centre National de Référence des Legionella, INSERM E-0230, Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Faculté de Médecine Laennec IFR 62, 69372 Lyon Cedex 08, France. aurell@univ-lyon1.fr
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|July 5, 2003
Abstract:
An analysis of 691 French clinical Legionella isolates showed that the endemic L. pneumophila serogroup 1 strain Paris was responsible for 12.2% of all cases of legionellosis and had a specific pulsed-field gel electrophoresis pattern. We also demonstrated the presence of this endemic clone throughout Europe.