Legionella in Clinical Specimens and Hospital Water Supply Facilities: Molecular Detection and Genotyping of the Isolates | Zendy

Jafar Qasem | Zendy; Abu Salim Mustafa | Zendy; Ziauddin Khan | Zendy

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Legionella in Clinical Specimens and Hospital Water Supply Facilities: Molecular Detection and Genotyping of the Isolates

Author(s) -

Jafar Qasem,

Abu Salim Mustafa,

Ziauddin Khan

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

medical principles and practice

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.426

H-Index - 45

eISSN - 1423-0151

pISSN - 1011-7571

DOI - 10.1159/000109590

Subject(s) - legionella , genotyping , microbiology and biotechnology , sputum , serotype , polymerase chain reaction , legionella pneumophila , medicine , bronchoalveolar lavage , virology , biology , genotype , bacteria , lung , tuberculosis , pathology , biochemistry , genetics , gene

To evaluate genus- and species-specific polymerase chain reactions (PCRs) for the detection of the genus Legionella and the species Legionella pneumophila in clinical specimens and hospital water supplies, and to establish a simple and reproducible random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD)-PCR technique for genotyping of Legionella.

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