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ArticleEuropean journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology2024

Evaluating Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy with IR Biotyper as a faster and simpler method for investigating the sources of an outbreak of legionellosis.

Naoki Nakajima, Michio Jinnai, Shinji Izumiyama, Toshiro Kuroki

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Article in European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Naoki NakajimaDepartment of Microbiology, Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Public Health, 1-3-1 Shimomachiya, Chigasaki, Kanagawa, 253-0087, Japan. nakajima.vbc@pref.kanagawa.lg.jp.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0004-2214-0431
Michio JinnaiDepartment of Microbiology, Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Public Health, 1-3-1 Shimomachiya, Chigasaki, Kanagawa, 253-0087, Japan.
Shinji IzumiyamaDepartment of Parasitology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
Toshiro KurokiFaculty of Veterinary Medicine, Okayama University of Science, Okayama, Japan.

Funding

Health and Labor Sciences Research Grant JPMH22LA1008
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy using the IR Biotyper and core genome single nucleotide polymorphism (cgSNP) analysis were performed on 12 Legionella isolates associated with an outbreak at a spa house in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, and 3 non-outbreak isolates. The discriminative power of FTIR spectroscopy for 48-h incubation conditions of L. pneumophila in this outbreak was lower than cgSNP-based typing but higher than serogroup typing. FTIR spectroscopy could screen outbreak isolates from a group of genetically related isolates and may be useful as an initial typing method in Legionella outbreak investigations.

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Disease OutbreaksLegionellosisBacterial Typing TechniquesHumansJapanLegionellaLegionella pneumophilaPolymorphism, Single NucleotideSpectroscopy, Fourier Transform InfraredFTIR spectroscopyIR BiotyperLegionella pneumophilaSNPSpa houseWGS

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