Confirming Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak by Genome-Based Method, Germany, 2012

Florian Burckhardt; Andre Brion; Jeanette Lahm; Heinz-Ulrich Koch; Karola Prior; Markus Petzold; Dag Harmsen; Christian Lück

doi:10.3201/eid2207.151738

Confirming Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak by Genome-Based Method, Germany, 2012

Emerg Infect Dis. 2016 Jul;22(7):1303-4. doi: 10.3201/eid2207.151738.

Authors

Florian Burckhardt, Andre Brion, Jeanette Lahm, Heinz-Ulrich Koch, Karola Prior, Markus Petzold, Dag Harmsen, Christian Lück

No abstract available

Keywords: Legionella pneumophila; Legionnaires’ disease; bacteria; cooling tower; monoclonal antibody typing; multilocus sequence typing; outbreaks; respiratory disease; whole genome sequencing.

Publication types

Historical Article
Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Disease Outbreaks*
Genome, Bacterial*
Germany / epidemiology
History, 21st Century
Humans
Legionella pneumophila / classification*
Legionella pneumophila / genetics*
Legionnaires' Disease / epidemiology*
Legionnaires' Disease / history
Legionnaires' Disease / microbiology*
Multilocus Sequence Typing
Serogroup