Nikonov, B.I., Romanenko, V.V., Zhukova, Yu.V., Durasova, A.L., Astakhova, T.S., Garanina, S.B.

PCR-diagnostics in investigation of Legionnaires’ disease outbreak

Administration of Federal Service for Surveillance for Protection of Consumers Rights and Human Welfare in Sverdlovsk region; Center of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Sverdlovsk region, Ekaterinburg; Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia

Results of studies of biological samples from patients with community-acquired pneumonia and samples from environment during Legionnaires" disease outbreak in town Verkhnyaya Pyshma (Sverdlovsk region) in July—August 2007 performed by PCR analysis are presented.
Zh. Mikrobiol. (Moscow), 2008, No. 2, P. 44—46