Legionella spp. outdoors: Colonization, communication and persistence

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 286-296

  Hilbi, Hubert ^a   Hoffmann, Christine ^a   Harrison, Christopher F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOEBA (GENUS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EUKARYOTA; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONELLACEAE; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA; PROKARYOTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 79955957283     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2011.00247.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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