Prevalence and Virulence Factor Profiles of Legionella Pneumophila Isolated From the Cases of Respiratory Tract Infections

Prevalence and Virulence Factor Profiles of Legionella Pneumophila Isolated From the Cases of Respiratory Tract Infections Publisher

Rahimi B¹ ; Vesal A²

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1. Advanced Thoracic Research Centre, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran
2. Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Source: Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology Published:2017

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Legionella pneumophila is one of the most severe causative agents responsible for lower respiratory tract infections. Pathogenesis of Legionella diseases is mainly occurred due to the activities of some latent virulence factors. The present investigation was carried out to study the prevalence rate of L. pneumophila and its putative virulence factors in the respiratory samples of patients. Three-hundred and fifty respiratory samples were taken from patients suffered from RTIs. All samples were cultured and their positive results were subjected to several PCR reaction. Prevalence in patients suffered from RTIs were 11.53%. lidA (70.58%), ralF (23.52%) and ivhB (17.64%) were the most commonly detected virulence factors in the L. pneumophila recovered from the respiratory samples. Considerable presence of virulent strains of L. pneumophila in patients showed that important public health issue facing hospitalized patients.

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MLA	Rahimi B, Vesal A. "Prevalence and Virulence Factor Profiles of Legionella Pneumophila Isolated From the Cases of Respiratory Tract Infections." Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, vol. 11, no. 1, 2017, pp. 71-76.
APA	Rahimi B, Vesal A (2017). Prevalence and Virulence Factor Profiles of Legionella Pneumophila Isolated From the Cases of Respiratory Tract Infections. Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, 11(1), 71-76.
Chicago	Rahimi B, Vesal A. "Prevalence and Virulence Factor Profiles of Legionella Pneumophila Isolated From the Cases of Respiratory Tract Infections." Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology 11, no. 1 (2017): 71-76.
Harvard	Rahimi B, Vesal A (2017) 'Prevalence and Virulence Factor Profiles of Legionella Pneumophila Isolated From the Cases of Respiratory Tract Infections', Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, 11(1), pp. 71-76.
Vancouver	Rahimi B, Vesal A. Prevalence and Virulence Factor Profiles of Legionella Pneumophila Isolated From the Cases of Respiratory Tract Infections. Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology. 2017;11(1):71-76.
BibTex	@article{ author = {Rahimi B and Vesal A}, title = {Prevalence and Virulence Factor Profiles of Legionella Pneumophila Isolated From the Cases of Respiratory Tract Infections}, journal = {Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology}, volume = {11}, number = {1}, pages = {71-76}, year = {2017} }
RIS	TY - JOUR AU - Rahimi B AU - Vesal A TI - Prevalence and Virulence Factor Profiles of Legionella Pneumophila Isolated From the Cases of Respiratory Tract Infections JO - Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology VL - 11 IS - 1 SP - 71 EP - 76 PY - 2017 ER -

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