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A Fifth Serogroup of Legionella pneumophila
- ALBERT C. ENGLAND III, M.D.;
- ROGER M. McKINNEY, Ph.D.;
- PETER SKALIY, Ph.D.; and
- GEORGE W. GORMAN, B.S.
- Center for Disease Control, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; Atlanta, Georgia
Excerpt
In September 1978, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) investigated an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease among persons who had attended the national Veterans of Foreign Wars convention held in Dallas, Texas, 17 to 25 August 1978 (1). Among 45 conventioneers who had radiographically diagnosed pneumonia, in seven there was seroconversion to Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1, 11 had single indirect fluorescent (IF) antibody titers of 256 or greater, and one had lung tissue positive by direct fluorescent (DF) antibody to serogroup 1 but not to serogroups 2 to 4 (2); 26 others had pneumonia without apparent bacterial cause and did not
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Acknowledgments
The authors acknowledge David W. Fraser, M.D., for his criticisms and suggestions. George F. Mallison, M.P.H., and Don C. Mackel, M.S., Center for Disease Control, and George Hintgen, Environmental Health and Conservation, City of Dallas, assisted in the collection of environmental specimens. Linda Corcoran, M.S., James C. Feeley, Ph.D., Patricia P. Harris, M.S., Peggy S. Hayes, B.S., Karen R. Lewallen, M.S., William T. Martin, M.S., and George K. Morris, Ph.D., Center for Disease Control, contributed laboratory assistance. The authors are grateful to Don J. Brenner, Ph.D., Center for Disease Control, for providing unpublished DNA hybridization data. The epidemic investigation in Dallas was conducted at the invitation of E. Lowell Berry, M.D., Director, Department of Public Health, Dallas, and Charles R. Webb, Jr., M.D., Texas Department of Health.
