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Chinese Journal of Nosocomiology
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(24)2006.
Article
in Chinese
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-594484
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE To prove the diagnosis value for Legionnaires pneumophial pneumonia using polymerase chain reaction. METHODS L. pneumophial-DNA (LPN-DNA) from 47 spuum and 6 bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples collected from 53 patients with atypical pneumonia was detected by PCR. RESULTS The positive rate of LPN-DNA in 53 patients with atypical pneumonia was 9.4%, while the positive rate of sputum and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples was 6.4%and 33.3%, respectively. CONCLUSIONS LPN-DNA detected by PCR for early diagnosis of atypical pneumonia has favorable clinical application.