Isolation of Legionella pneumophila from a transtracheal aspirate
- 1 March 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 9 (3) , 457-458
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.9.3.457-458.1979
Abstract
Isolation of L. pneumophila from a [human] transtracheal aspirate was achieved by using simple in vitro culture methods. Clinical microbiologists should routinely culture for this organism from appropriate body fluids obtained from normally sterile areas.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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