D O Mikhaĭlova, Z D Bobyleva, V V Bazarnyi, E P Amon, Ia B Beĭkin, L G Besedina, O V Mel'nikova, V P Shilova, S M Rozanova, E Iu Perevalova
The aim of the study was a comparative analysis of diagnostic value of different laboratoty methods conducted on the basis of results of examination of patients during Legionnaires' disease outbreak in town Verkhnyaya Pyshma. Retrospective analysis of laboratory data from 74 patients with diagnosis of Legionnaires' disease was performed. Complex of laboratory methods was used (polymerase chain reaction (PCR), enzyme immunoassay (EIA), immunochromatography). In group of patients with Legionnaires' disease, the highest proportion of positive results (73%) was obtained by the EIA determining total specific antibodies in urine...
March 2008: Zhurnal Mikrobiologii, Epidemiologii, i Immunobiologii