New endemic Legionella pneumophila serogroup I clones, Ontario, Canada

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 447-454

  Tijet, Nathalie ^a   Tang, Patrick ^a   Romilowych, Mya ^a   Duncan, Carla ^a   Ng, Victoria ^b,c   Fisman, David N ^a,b   Jamieson, Frances ^a,d,e   Low, Donald E ^a,d,e   Guyard, Cyril ^a,d,e  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CANADA; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY;

DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONELLOSIS; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; ONTARIO; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING;

EID: 77649083557     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1603.081689     Document Type: Article

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