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Volume 7, Number 6—December 2001

Dispatch

Legionella-Like and Other Amoebal Pathogens as Agents of Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Thomas J. Marrie*Comments to Author , Didier Raoult†, Bernard La Scola†, Richard J. Birtles†, Emidio de Carolis‡, and the Canadian Community-Acquired Pneumonia Study Group
Author affiliations: *Department of Medicine University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;; †Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Marseille, France;; ‡Pfizer Canada Inc., Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Table 1

Percent seropositivity (antibody titer ³1:50) to various antigens among three study groupsa

Antigen Healthy Nova Scotians (%)
N = 511 Ambulatory Pneumonia (%)
N = 121 CAP requiring Hospitalization (%)
N = 255
LLAP-1 0.19 1.6 0.7
LLAP-2 0 0 0.39
LLAP-3 0.39 1.6 0.7
LLAP-4 0.39 0 4.3
LLAP-6 0.1 0 0.39
LLAP-7 1.36 0 1.56
LLAP-9 0.39 1.6 0.7
LLAP-10 0 0 0.7
LLAP-12 0.97 1.6 0.39
Hall's coccus 0 1.6 2.35
BN 9 0 0 2.35
Afipia felis
 0
 0.82
 0

aAs defined in paper.
CAP = community-acquired pneumonia.

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1R. Duperval, S. Field, T. Louie, S. Houston, M. Gribble, K. Williams, L. Nicolle, R. Grossman, I. Salit, R. Saginur, D. Gregson, M. Laverdiere, Jean Joly, T. Marrie, and J. Hutchinson.

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