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[Genomic DNA fingerprints of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 2 strains as an epidemiologic marker]
L Bender-Beck1, W Mühlenberg, P C Lück
1Institut für Molekulare Infektionsbiologie, Universität Würzburg.
Immunitat Und Infektion
|August 1, 1995
Abstract:
Using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, DNA fingerprints of eleven Legionella pneumophila isolates of serogroup 2 were generated. It was shown that two strains from a patient suffering from pneumonia as well as three environmental strains isolated from the shower in the hotel where the patient stayed 5 days before his illness were identical. Six strains of the same serogroup isolated from other sources were clearly separated. Thus, DNA fingerprints by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis are excellent epidemiological markers for the rarely occurring serogroup 2 of Legionella pneumophila.