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Detection of Legionella pneumophila-specific antibody by indirect immunofluorescence assay
M J Casal1, M J Linares Sicilia, J Martinez Nebreda
1Department of Medical Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Cordoba, Faculty of Medicine, Spain.
Acta Microbiologica Hungarica
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
Antibodies to Legionella pneumophila were found by indirect immunofluorescence assay in 525 samples of human serum. The samples were obtained from 451 patients who were suspected of having an acute infectious illness, with mainly respiratory symptoms; 90 patients had antibodies to L. pneumophila (19.9%). The results suggest that the prevalence of L. pneumophila is greater than had previously been supposed.