Identifying extrapulmonary legionellosis is difficult due to the lack of clinical suspicion and limitations of conventional microbiologic methods. We present a case series of hematopoietic cell transplant recipients with extrapulmonary legionellosis diagnosed via molecular diagnostics: 16S ribosomal ribonucleic acid gene Sanger sequencing and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry.
Keywords: 16S ribosomal ribonucleic acid gene sequencing; allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant; extrapulmonary legionellosis; matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry; molecular diagnostics.