Key Points
- Article primarily focusing on Legionella
- 97% of clinical Legionella diagnoses are obtained using a urinary antigen test. Most of these test only detect seorgroup 1
- Other serogroups are important, just as the species L. micdadei and L. longbeachae are important to be able to detect
How to use this article? With ImmuView you detect more than “just” Legionella. As the article says, there is a need to detect other species like L. longbeachae as well. As 97% of all diagnoses are based on UAT, why not chose the only one that detect more that Legionella? ImmuView Legionella + L. longbeahae
You can also use the poster by Lindseay et. all (found in the ImmuVIew S.pneumonia + legionella site) where ImmuView detects more than SG 1.