Enhancement of Legionella pneumophila culture isolation from microenvironments by macrophage infectivity potentiator (mip) gene-specific nested polymerase chain reaction

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 777-785

  Nintasen, Rungrat ^a   Utrarachkij, Fuangfa ^a   Siripanichgon, Kanokrat ^a   Bhumiratana, Adisak ^a   Suzuki, Yasuhiko ^b   Suthienkul, Orasa ^a  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Environmental samples; Legionella pneumophila; Macrophage infectivity potentiator (mip) gene; Nested PCR

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOME; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MACROPHAGE; MACROPHAGE INFECTIVITY POTENTIATOR GENE; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA;

EID: 34548243250     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: 13480421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2007.tb03967.x     Document Type: Article

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