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Legionnaire Disease
Research from F. Gouriet et al has provided new information about legionnaire disease
February 3rd, 2009
According to a study from Marseille, France, "The serological diagnosis of blood culture-negative endocarditis due to Coxiella burnetii, Bartonella spp., Brucella melitensis and Legionella pneumophila is based on a manual immunofluorescence assay (IFA), which is taken to be the reference method. The automated IFA InoDiag multiplexed antigenic microarray, which includes a slide with all the above bacteria and four internal controls, an incubator, a fluorescent reader and software with an algorithm of interpretation for infectious endocarditis (IE) was evaluated." "A single serum dilution at 1/128 was used. Eleven patients with Bartonella spp. IE and ten with C. burnetii...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-02-03)
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