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Chapter 11.4 : Urinary Antigen Detection for spp.

Editor: Lynne S. Garcia1
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Abstract:

Patients with Legionnaires' disease excrete soluble serogroup-specific antigen into their urine. Urinary antigen tests to detect Legionnaires' disease were developed by several groups soon after the 1976 Philadelphia, PA, outbreak of Legionnaires' disease ( ) and then further refined by Kohler et al. and other groups ( ). The antigen being detected has never been extensively purified, but it is known that it is resistant to boiling, is trypsin resistant, has a molecular mass of approximately 10 kDa, and is most likely a lipopolysaccharide ( ).

Citation: Garcia L. 2010. Urinary Antigen Detection for spp., p 153-159. In Clinical Microbiology Procedures Handbook, 3rd Edition. ASM Press, Washington, DC. doi: 10.1128/9781555817435.ch11.4
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Urinary Antigen Detection for Legionella spp.
Citation: Garcia L. 2010. Urinary Antigen Detection for spp., p 153-159. In Clinical Microbiology Procedures Handbook, 3rd Edition. ASM Press, Washington, DC. doi: 10.1128/9781555817435.ch11.4
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Citation: Garcia L. 2010. Urinary Antigen Detection for spp., p 153-159. In Clinical Microbiology Procedures Handbook, 3rd Edition. ASM Press, Washington, DC. doi: 10.1128/9781555817435.ch11.4

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