Isolation of Legionella rubrilucens from a pneumonia patient co-infected with Legionella pneumophila

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1242-1246

  Matsui, Mikio ^a   Fujii, Shin Ichiro ^b   Shiroiwa, Rieko ^c   Amemura Maekawa, Junko ^d   Chang, Bin ^d   Kura, Fumiaki ^d   Yamauchi, Kohei ^e  

^a Medical Corporation Matsui Internal Clinic   (Japan)

^b Iwate Prefecture Research Center for Environmental Health   (Japan)

^c Iwate Prefectural Ninohe Public Health Center   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^e IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BATH; CASE REPORT; DNA DETERMINATION; HUMAN; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONELLA RUBRILUCENS; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SPUTUM; THERMAL SPRING; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPUTUM; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

EID: 77957297194     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.016089-0     Document Type: Article

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