Characterization of Legionella pneumophila isolates from patients in Japan according to serogroups, monoclonal antibody subgroups and sequence types

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 653-659

  Amemura Maekawa, Junko ^a   Kura, Fumiaki ^a   Helbig, Jürgen H ^b   Chang, Bin ^a   Kaneko, Akiko ^c   Watanabe, Yuko ^d   Isobe, Junko ^e   Nukina, Masafumi ^f   Nakajima, Hiroshi ^g   Kawano, Kimiko ^h   Tada, Yuki ^a   Watanabe, Haruo ^a   Ohtani, K ^c   Aoki, T ^c   Mashiko, K ⁱ   Kurazono, T ^j   Kon, M ^j   Shimada, N ^j   Tateda, K ^k   Eguchi, H ^l   Koyama, T ^m   Sugiyama, K ⁿ   Kanazawa, Y ^o   Furuta, N ^p   Agata, N ^q   Kobayashi, T ^r   Ito, Y ^s   Taguchi, M ^t   Tsuji, H ^u   Ogata, K ^v   Horikawa, K ^w   Uryu, K ^x   Shimizu, Y ^y   Saito, A ^z   Ueno, N ^aa   Kubozono, S ^aa   more..

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c YAMAGATA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^d KANAGAWA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^e TOYAMA INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Japan)

^f Public Health Research Institute of Kobe City   (Japan)

^g Okayama Prefectural Institute for Environmental Science and Public Health   (Japan)

^h Miyazaki Prefectural Institute for Public Health and Environment   (Japan)

ⁱ Ibaraki Prefectural Institute of Public Health   (Japan)

^j SAITAMA INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^k TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^l Niigata City Institute of Public Health   (Japan)

^m NAGANO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

ⁿ SHIZUOKA INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HYGIENE   (Japan)

^o Shizuoka City Institute of Environmental Sciences and Public Health   (Japan)

^p Gifu Prefectural Research Institute for Health and Environmental Sciences   (Japan)

^q NAGOYA CITY PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^r Ichinomiya Nishi Hospital   (Japan)

^s KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^t OSAKA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^u Hyogo Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences   (Japan)

^v Oita Prefectural Institute of Health and Environment   (Japan)

^w FUKUOKA INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^x Fukuoka City Institute for Hygiene and the Environment   (Japan)

^y Kitakyushu City Institute of Environmental Sciences   (Japan)

^z JAPANESE RED CROSS SOCIETY   (Japan)

^aa Kagoshima Prefectural Institute of Environmental Research and Public Health   (Japan)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; BATH; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HABITAT; HUMAN; JAPAN; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VIRULENCE; ADOLESCENT; AGED; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHEMISTRY; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEROTYPING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953011599     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.017509-0     Document Type: Article

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