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Legionella jordanis isolated from a patient with fatal pneumonia
W L Thacker1, H W Wilkinson, R F Benson
1Division of Bacterial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia 30333.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|July 1, 1988
Abstract:
A Legionella-like organism was isolated from an open-lung biopsy of a patient with fatal pneumonia. The isolate was shown by growth, physiologic, serologic, and genetic characteristics to belong to the species Legionella jordanis, which had previously been isolated only from the environment.