Comparison of clinical and environmental samples of Legionella pneumophila at the nucleotide sequence level

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 882-888

  Coscollá, Mireia ^a,b,c   González Candelas, Fernando ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b Centro Superior de Investigacion en Salud Publica CSISP   (Spain)

^c CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

Author keywords

Direct sequencing; Genetic differentiation; Legionellosis; Molecular epidemiology; Molecular population genetics; Non culturable samples; Nucleotide sequences; Recombination

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INFECTION RISK; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA SEROGROUP 1;

EID: 67651095783     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2009.05.013     Document Type: Article

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