Regrowth of Legionella pneumophila in a heat-disinfected plumbing system

Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie

Volumn 288, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 331-342

  Steinert, Michael ^a,b   Ockert, Günter ^c   Lück, Christian ^d   Hacker, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA;

EID: 0032215514     PISSN: 09348840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0934-8840(98)80005-4     Document Type: Article

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