Update on Legionnaires' disease: Pathogenesis, epidemiology, detection and control: MicroMeeting

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-11

  Hilbi, Hubert ^a   Jarraud, Sophie ^b   Hartland, Elizabeth ^c   Buchrieser, Carmen ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b University Lyon i   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE CONTROL; HOST CELL; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION CONTROL; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGED; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; TRENDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEGIONELLA;

AGED; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; GENOMICS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE;

EID: 77950205391     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07086.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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