Environmental surveillance and molecular characterization of Legionella in tropical singapore

Tropical Biomedicine

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 149-159

  Lim, Y H ^a   Relus Kek, Y L ^a   Lim, P Y ^b   Yap, H M ^a   Vivien Goh, T L ^a   Ng, L C ^a  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (Singapore)

^b SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEGIONELLA; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; SINGAPORE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; SINGAPORE; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 79953855251     PISSN: 01275720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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