The Diagnosis of Legionella pneumophila Serogroup 5 Bacteremic Pneumonia during Severe Neutropenia Using Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification

A 60-year-old man developed pneumonia after undergoing autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation for diffuse large-B cell lymphoma. A urinary antigen test and sputum culture were both negative for Legionella pneumophila; however, a sputum sample that was examined by loop-mediated isother...

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Autores principales: Moriguchi, Shuhei, Abe, Masahiro, Kimura, Muneyoshi, Yoshino, Chiemi, Baba, Masaru, Okada, Chikako, Izutsu, Koji, Taniguchi, Shuichi, Araoka, Hideki, Yoneyama, Akiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5919869/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29269681
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.9810-17

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