Key Points
- Case report about 2 patients admitted with pneuemoniae, caused by L. longeachae – detected by PCR
- L. longeachae is increasingly being reported in Europe
- The general source of contamination for L. longbeachae is considered to be compost and other growing media
- Routine laboratory techniques like the urine antigen test do not detect L. longbeachae (before ImmuView)
How to use this case report? If you don´t look you will not find it…
This case report shows that there are longbeachae cases in Europe, and the number is rising. At the time when this case report was made, there were no UAT for longbeachae. Now there is, so a quick and easy detection is possible. Again, full focus on Legionella pneumophila, but with an added benefit! Please also look at the commercial material, where there were 20 confirmed longbeachae cases confirmed in Sweden in the summer of 2018!