Affiliation:
1. Department of Infectious Parasitic and Immunomediate Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
Abstract
ABSTRACT
In the summer of 2003 a community-acquired outbreak of
Legionella pneumophila
occurred in Rome, Italy. Three molecular typing methods, pulse-field gel electrophoresis, amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis, and sequence-based typing (SBT), were used to establish the clonal correlation among the isolates of the epidemic cluster. By comparison of the methods, SBT was the most rapid and the easiest to perform and provided unambiguous results.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
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