Emerging Mycobacteria spp. in cooling towers

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 121-122

  Pagnier, Isabelle ^a   Merchat, Michèle ^b   Raoult, Didier ^a   La Scola, Bernard ^a,c  

^a Unité des Rickettsie   (France)

^b Climespace Service Recherche and Développement   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COCULTURE; COOLING TOWER; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LEGIONELLA; LETTER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

AIR CONDITIONING; AMOEBA; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; FRESH WATER; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; PARIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 58849091476     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1501.071356     Document Type: Letter

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