Volume 9, Number 8, August 2003

Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak in Murcia, Spain

Ana García-Fulgueiras,* Carmen Navarro,* Daniel Fenoll,† José García,* Paulino González-Diego,* Teresa Jiménez-Buñuales,* Miguel Rodriguez,* Rosa Lopez,* Francisco Pacheco,* Joaquín Ruiz,‡ Manuel Segovia,§ Beatriz Baladrón,¶ and Carmen Pelaz¶
*Regional Health Council of Murcia, Murcia, Spain; †Council of Murcia, Murcia, Spain; ‡Virgen de la Arrixaca Hospital, Murcia, Spain; §Morales Meseguer Hospital, Murcia, Spain; and ¶Health Institute of Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Figure 4. Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) gel containing outbreak human and environmental Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 isolates. M, molecular weight marker (Ladder Mix, MBI Fermentas, UK). Lanes 1 and 2, two colonies from a cooling tower of the hospital H. Lines 3 and 4, human isolates. Lanes 5 and 6, human isolates. Lanes 7–11, different environmental isolates from several Murcia installations.

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