TY - JOUR AU - La Scola, Bernard AU - Marrie, Thomas AU - Auffray, Jean-Pierre AU - Raoult, Didier T1 - Mimivirus in Pneumonia Patients T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2005 VL - 11 IS - 3 SP - 449 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Mimivirus, the largest virus known to date, is an amebal pathogen like Legionella spp. When mimivirus was used as an antigen in a migration inhibition factor assay, seroconversion was found in patients with both community- and hospital-acquired pneumonia. Mimivirus DNA was found in respiratory samples of patients with hospital-acquired pneumonia. KW - pneumonia KW - mimivirus KW - dispatch KW - Canada DO - 10.3201/eid1103.040538 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/11/3/04-0538_article ER - End of Reference