Recognition of a new serogroup of Legionnaires disease bacterium
Recognition of a new serogroup of Legionnaires disease bacterium
R. Mckinney,B. Thomason,5 Authors,C. W. Moss
1979 · DOI: 10.1128/jcm.9.1.103-107.1979
Journal of Clinical Microbiology · 51 Citations
TLDR
The Togus serogroup of LDB should be considered when performing serological tests for Legionnaires disease, as it was isolated from a postmortem lung specimen of a patient with fatal atypical pneumonia.