Journal Article

Distribution of Legionella Species and Serogroups Isolated by Culture in Patients with Sporadic Community-Acquired Legionellosis: An International Collaborative Survey

Widmer, Andreas, Yu, Victor L., Plouffe, Joseph F., Summersgill, James, Heath, Christopher M., Paterson, David L., Schousboe, Mona, Chereshsky, Annette, Stout, Janet E., Pastoris, Maddalena Castellani, File, Thomas

2002

Overview

This international collaborative survey identified culture-confirmed legionellosis in 508 patients with sporadic community-acquired legionellosis. Legionella pneumophila constituted 91.5% of the isolates. Serogroup 1 was the predominant serogroup (84.2%), and serogroups 2–13 (7.4%) accounted for the remaining serogroups. The Legionella species most commonly isolated were L. longbeachae (3.9%) and L. bozemanii (2.4%), followed by L. micdadei, L. dumoffii, L. feeleii, L. wadsworthii and L. anisa (2.2% combined). L. longbeachae constituted 30.4% of the community-acquired Legionella isolates in Australia and New Zealand

• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press,University of Chicago Press,Oxford University Press
• Subject: Australia / Bacterial diseases / Biological and medical sciences / Community-Acquired Infections - microbiology / Concise Communication / Health surveys / Human bacterial diseases / Humans / Infections / Infectious diseases / Italy / Labor force surveys / Legionella / Legionella - classification / Legionella - isolation & purification / Legionella pneumophila / Legionella pneumophila - classification / Legionella pneumophila - isolation & purification / Legionellosis / Legionellosis - microbiology / Legionnaires disease / Medical sciences / Miscellaneous / New Zealand / Pneumonia / Prospective Studies / Retrospective Studies / School surveys / Serotyping / Switzerland / United States