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Culture and real-time PCR results for clinical samplesa
| Clinical samples | No. of positive samples
|
||
|---|---|---|---|
| Culture | Real-time PCR | Total | |
| Retrospective | |||
| L. pneumophila | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| Legionella spp. | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Prospective | |||
| Bronchalvelor lavage | |||
| L. pneumophila | 0 | 0 | 64 |
| Legionella spp. | 0 | 2 | 64 |
| Throat swabs | |||
| L. pneumophila | 0 | 2b | 10 |
| Legionella spp. | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Culture positive samples were tested retrospectively, and 74 samples were prospectively analyzed.
Showed recent Legionella infection by serology.
