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Volume 23, Number 11—November 2017
Research

Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak Caused by Endemic Strain of Legionella pneumophila, New York, New York, USA, 2015

Pascal LapierreComments to Author , Elizabeth Nazarian, Yan Zhu, Danielle Wroblewski, Amy Saylors, Teresa Passaretti, Scott Hughes, Anthony Tran, Ying Lin, John Kornblum, Shatavia S. Morrison, Jeffrey W. Mercante, Robert Fitzhenry, Don Weiss, Brian H. Raphael, Jay K. Varma, Howard A. Zucker, Jennifer L. Rakeman, and Kimberlee A. Musser
Author affiliations: Wadsworth Center, Albany, New York, USA (P. Lapierre, E. Nazarian, Y. Zhu, D. Wroblewski, A. Saylors, T. Passaretti, H.A. Zucker, K.A. Musser); New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, New York, USA (S. Hughes, A. Tran, Y. Lin, J. Kornblum, R. Fitzhenry, D. Weiss, J.K. Varma, J.L. Rakeman); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (S.S. Morrison, J.W. Mercante, B.H. Raphael); New York State Health Commissioner, Albany (H.A. Zucker)

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Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of case-patient and environmental isolates from a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak caused by an endemic strain of Legionella pneumophila, New York City, New York, USA, 2015. One clinical isolate with the outbreak PFGE pattern (Clinical isolate−outbreak pattern) shows matches to 2 cooling tower (CT A and CT B) isolates from the South Bronx Hotel (SB), a homeless shelter (HS), and East Bronx College (EBC). Molecular typing patterns of Legionella pneumophila se

Figure 2. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of case-patient and environmental isolates from a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak caused by an endemic strain of Legionella pneumophila, New York City, New York, USA, 2015. One clinical isolate with the outbreak PFGE pattern (Clinical isolate−outbreak pattern) shows matches to cooling tower (CT A and CT B) isolates from a South Bronx hotel (SB), a homeless shelter (HS), and East Bronx College (EBC). Molecular typing patterns of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 isolates from CT from the SB hotel, HS, and EBC were indistinguishable from 26 clinical isolates associated with the Legionnaires’ disease cluster in the South Bronx. Samples that were not linked to the outbreak had major differences in patterns when compared with the outbreak pattern.

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