Abstract
A total of 186 volunteers, including 40 hospital patients, participated in a cross-sectional survey of oropharyngeal colonization with Legionella pneumophila. Colonization was defined as the appearance of any L. pneumophila organisms on culture or a positive direct fluorescent-antibody (FA) test or both in the absence of signs or symptoms of pneumonia. The direct FA tests were performed on throat swabs, using a polyvalent conjugate directed against L. pneumophila serogroups I through IV. Throat swabs were cultured for L. pneumophila on a selective medium. Blood specimens were tested for antibody, using an indirect FA test and heat-killed polyvalent antigen for L. pneumophila serogroups I through IV. Eight people, none of whom had pneumonia or fever, had positive direct FA tests; no subject had a positive culture for L. pneumophila. Whether the positive direct FA results represent colonization cannot be stated with assurance. In any case, the results suggest that colonization occurs infrequently.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
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