Reevaluation of the definition of Legionnaires' disease: use of the urinary antigen assay. Community Based Pneumonia Incidence Study Group.

F Plouffe, J; M File, T; F Breiman, R; A Hackman, B; J Salstrom, S; J Marston, B; S Fields, B

doi:10.1093/clinids/20.5.1286

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Reevaluation of the definition of Legionnaires' disease: use of the urinary antigen assay. Community Based Pneumonia Incidence Study Group.

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J F Plouffe

T M File

R F Breiman

Abstract

Cases of Legionnaires' disease have been categorized as definitive and presumptive. The sensitivity and specificity of antibody titers of > or = 256 and of urinary antigen ratios of > or = 3 were evaluated in 68 patients with "definitive" Legionnaires' disease and in 636 patients with pneumonia who ...

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