Isolation of the 1st strains of Legionella pneumophila in the USSR
Tartakovskiĭ, I.S.; Prozorovskiĭ, S.V.; Popov, V.L.
Zhurnal Mikrobiologii Epidemiologii i Immunobiologii 11: 41-45
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0372-9311 PMID: 6659769 Document Number: 214698
For the first time L. pneumophila strains were isolated from pneumonia patients in the USSR. To isolate these strains, the material obtained from the patients was inoculated into charcoal-yeast agar with antibiotics or into guinea pigs with the subsequent inoculation of chick embryos. Both isolated strains were classified with serogroup 1 of L. pneumophila on the basis of their cultural, morphological, biochemical and serological properties.