Gene study helps explain Legionnaires' probe complications
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - 12:01
in Health & Medicine
Genetic research helps to explain why tracing the source of an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease that claimed four lives has proven to be more complicated than scientists hoped. A DNA study of bacteria samples taken from patients infected during the 2012 outbreak in Edinburgh shows that it was caused by several subtypes of the bacteria.