[Isolation of the 1st strains of Legionella pneumophila in the USSR].
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.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D002642:Chick Embryo; D002648:Child; D006168:Guinea Pigs; D006801:Humans; D007875:Legionella / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000472:pathogenicity; D007877:Legionnaires' Disease / Q000382:microbiology; D007928:Lethal Dose 50; D008168:Lung / Q000382:microbiology; D008297:Male; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000382:microbiology; D011817:Rabbits; D014586:USSR
D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial
Vydelenie pervykh shtammov Legionella pneumophila v SSSR.