legionellosis

Guidelines on Diagnosis and Treatment of Legionella pneumophila Serogroup 1 Infection

Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2009; 11(1):4-13

Legionella spp. is an uncommon but important causative pathogen of respiratory tract infections occurring both sporadically and in epidemics. An interest in it has emerged recently after outbreak of legionellosis in Sverdlovsk region. In this …

Molecular Typing of Legionella pneumophila and Legionella spp. Strains, isolated in the Russian Federation

Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2008; 10(2):154-162

On the base of international standarts of molecular-genetic typing (SBT protocol and EQA scheme using DNA sequencing of the mip-gene of the European Working Group for Legionella Infections — EWGLI) were descibed the strains of Legionella pneumophila …

Use of Laboratory Standards for Diagnosis of Legionellosis during the Outbreak of Pneumonia in Verhnyaya Pyshma (Sverdlovsk Region)

Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2007; 9(4):361-368

Over the last years there was a significant improvement in diagnostics and prophylaxis of legionellosis that is due to introduction of current standards of laboratory diagnosis and quantitative analysis of the pathogen in the environmental objects. …

Legionellosis: the Role in Human Infectious Diseases

Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2007; 9(3):219-232

In spite of the fact that legionellosis is known as a human infectious disease for more than 25 years there is still quite a few difficulties and open problems. At the present article the following topics are described in detail: taxonomy, general …

Legionellosis: the Role In Human Infectious Pathologies

Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2001; 3(1):4-16