Evaluation of the Merifluor-Legionella immunofluorescent reagent for identifying and detecting 21 Legionella species.
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We evaluated a 33-valent polyclonal indirect immunofluorescent-reagent kit (Merifluor-Legionella; Meridian Diagnostics Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio) made for the detection of Legionella species by testing bacterial isolates, seeded sputum, and negative sputum samples. Use of the reagent according to the directions of the manufacturer gave false-negative staining of homologous culture isolates due to a prozone phenomenon; this was solved by diluting test strain suspensions. After this change in testing protocol was made, the reagent gave bright fluorescent staining with 31 of the 33 Legionella strains with which it supposedly reacts. Strongly reacting Legionella strains included the type strains of L. pneumophila serogroups 1 to 10, L. longbeachae serogroups 1 and 2, and serogroup 1 of L. anisa, L. bozemanii, L. cherrii, L. dumoffii, L. gormanii, L. hackeliae, L. jamestowniensis, L. jordanis, L. maceachernii, L. micadedi, L. oakridgensis, L. rubrilucens, L. sainthelensi, L. spiritensis, L. steigerwaltii, and L. wadsworthii. Type strains of L. erythra and L. feeleii fluoresced only dimly with the reagent. Of 10 non-Legionella bacteria known to cross-stain with other polyvalent antisera, 5 also cross-reacted with the Merifluor reagent; these included 3 Bacteroides fragilis and 2 Pseudomonas fluorescens strains. The lower limit of detection of L. pneumophila serogroup 1 in seeded sputum was about 5 x 10(4) to 5 x 10(5) cells per ml. None of 21 randomly collected sputum specimens tested contained fluorescing legionellalike organisms, but 6 specimens did contain brightly fluorescing bacteria atypical in morphology for Legionella species. The Merifluor-Legionella kit appears to perform as well as other polyclonal immunofluorescent reagents used for detection of Legionella species. Because of the cross-reactions observed, which are common to all polyclonal reagents, utilization of this reagent for either bacterial identification or detection must be performed in combination with culture.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of clinical microbiology
دوره 27 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1989