Comparison of potentially pathogenic free-living amoeba hosts by Legionella spp. in substrate-associated biofilms and floating biofilms from spring environments

Water Research

Volumn 45, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 5171-5183

  Hsu, Bing Mu ^a   Huang, Chin Chun ^a   Chen, Jung Sheng ^a,b   Chen, Nai Hsiung ^a   Huang, Jen Te ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acanthamoeba; Biofilm; Hartmanella vermiformis; Legionella; Naegleria

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOA;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ANALYSIS METHOD; DETECTION RATES; HARTMANELLA VERMIFORMIS; LEGIONELLA; NAEGLERIA; PCR-BASED DETECTION; PRESENCE/ABSENCE;

BIOFILMS;

BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DETECTION METHOD; GENOTYPE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PATHOGENICITY; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOAN;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA GRIFFINI; ACANTHAMOEBA JACOBSI; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BIOFILM; FIXED BIOFILM; FLOATING BIOFILM; HARTMANELLA VERMIFORMIS; HARTMANNELLA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEGIONELLA; NAEGLERIA; NAEGLERIA AUSTRALIENSIS; NAEGLERIA ITALICA; NAEGLERIA PHILIPPINENSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PH; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPRING; TURBIDITY; VAHLKAMPFIA; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA GRIFFINI; ACANTHAMOEBA JACOBSI; AMOEBA (GENUS); HARTMANNELLA VERMIFORMIS; LEGIONELLA; NAEGLERIA; NAEGLERIA AUSTRALIENSIS; NAEGLERIA ITALICA; NAEGLERIA PHILIPPINENSIS;

EID: 80052270470     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2011.07.019     Document Type: Article

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