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Distribution of Legionella species and serogroups in patients with culture-confirmed Legionella pneumonia by Naoyuki Miyashita; Futoshi Higa; Yosuke Aoki; Toshiaki Kikuchi; Masafumi Seki; Kazuhiro Tateda; Nobuko Maki; Kazuhiro Uchino; Kazuhiko Ogasawara; Hiroshi Kiyota; Akira Watanabe is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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Legionella species are consistently identified as some of the most common causative agents of severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) or nosocomial pneumonia. Although the number of reported Legionella infection cases is gradually increasing in Japan, most cases are diagnosed by a urinary antigen test, which identifies only L. pneumophila serogroup 1. Therefore, assessment of pneumonia-causing Legionella species and serogroups would be important. The Japan Society for Chemotherapy Legionella committee has collected the isolates and clinical information on cases of sporadic community-acquired Legionella pneumonia throughout Japan. Between December 2006 and March 2019, totally 140 sporadic cases were identified, in which L. pneumophila was the most frequently isolated species (90.7%) followed by L. bozemanae (3.6%), L. dumofii (3.6%), L. micdadei (1.4%), and L. longbeachae (0.7%). Among 127 isolates of L. pneumophila, 111 isolates were of serogroup 1, two of serogroup 2, four of serogroup 3, one of serogroup 4, one of serogroup 5, seven of serogroup 6, and one was of serogroup 10. We also assessed in vitro activity of antibiotics against these isolates and showed that quinolones an
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- Author
- Naoyuki Miyashita; Futoshi Higa; Yosuke Aoki; Toshiaki Kikuchi; Masafumi Seki; Kazuhiro Tateda; Nobuko Maki; Kazuhiro Uchino; Kazuhiko Ogasawara; Hiroshi Kiyota; Akira Watanabe
- Publisher
- Springer; Elsevier ; Elsevier Limited; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1341-321X)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)