Legionellosis and Lung Abscesses: Contribution of Legionella Quantitative Real-Time PCR to an Adapted Followup

We report a case of severe Legionnaires' disease (LD) complicated by a lung abscess in an immunocompetent patient who required ECMO therapy and thoracic surgery. The results of repeated Legionella quantitative real-time PCR performed on both sera and respiratory samples correlated with the LD s...

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Autores principales: Descours, G., Tellini, C., Flamens, C., Philit, F., Celard, M., Etienne, J., Lina, G., Jarraud, S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3686064/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23862082
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/190183

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3686064/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23862082
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/190183

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