Screening pneumonia patients for mimivirus
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Antigen-Capture Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Specific Detection of Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Published on: February 24, 2023
Ryan K Dare1, Malinee Chittaganpitch, Dean D Erdman
1Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA. dde1@cdc.gov
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|March 8, 2008
Abstract:
Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus (APM), a virus of free-living amebae, has reportedly caused human respiratory disease. Using 2 newly developed real-time PCR assays, we screened 496 respiratory specimens from 9 pneumonia-patient populations for APM. This virus was not detected in any specimen, which suggests it is not a common respiratory pathogen.
