Volume 9, Number 7—July 2003
Research
Amoeba-Resisting Bacteria and Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
Bernard La Scola*, Ioanna Boyadjiev*†, Gilbert Greub*, Atieh Khamis*, Claude Martin†, and Didier Raoult*†
Table 5
Antibody titers of 12 serum samples with seroconversion to at least one of the bacteria isolated in the intensive care unita
| Case | Wk of sampling | Bosea massiliensis |
Legionella anisa |
L. quinlivanii |
Afipia broomeae |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IgG | IgM | IgG | IgM | IgG | IgM | IgG | IgM | ||
| 1a |
1 |
<1:50 |
<1:25 |
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| 4 |
1:50 |
1:100 |
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| 7 |
1:800 |
1:50 |
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| 2 a |
1 |
<1:50 |
<1:25 |
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| 3 |
1:400 |
1:100 |
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| 7 |
1 |
<1:50 |
<1:25 |
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| 3 |
<1:50 |
1:200 |
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| 8 |
1 |
<1:50 |
<1:25 |
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| 3 |
1:200 |
1:800 |
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| 9 |
1 |
<1:50 |
<1:25 |
<1:50 |
<1:25 |
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| 3 |
1:400 |
1:50 |
1:50 |
1:400 |
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| 5 |
1:50 |
1:25 |
1:800 |
1:50 |
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| 11 |
1 |
<1:50 |
<1:25 |
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| 5 |
1:50 |
1:50 |
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| 12 |
1 |
<1:50 |
<1:25 |
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| 3 |
1:400 |
1:50 |
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| 13 |
1 |
<1:50 |
<1:25 |
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| 3 |
1:50 |
<1:25 |
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| 5 |
1:100 |
<1:25 |
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| 7 |
1:200 |
<1:25 |
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| 19 |
1 |
<1:50 |
<1:25 |
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| 3 |
1:400 |
<1:25 |
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| 22 |
1 |
<1:50 |
<1:25 |
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| 3 |
1:200 |
1:50 |
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| 23 |
1 |
<1:50 |
<1:25 |
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| 5 |
1:400 |
1:25 |
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| 28 |
1 |
<1:50 |
<1:25 |
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| 3 |
1:400 |
1:25 |
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| 5 | 1:200 | 1:25 | |||||||
aPatients with positive PCR results in bronchoalveolar lavage samples (patient 1, L. anisa; Patient 2, B. massiliensis); Ig, immunoglobulin. All patients were sampled at admission (wk 1); titers in bold are those greater than or equal to defined cutoff titers (Table 4).
