High Prevalence, Genetic Diversity and Intracellular Growth Ability of Legionella in Hot Spring Environments

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Qin, Tian ^a   Yan, Gebin ^a   Ren, Hongyu ^a   Zhou, Haijian ^a   Wang, Huanxin ^a   Xu, Ying ^a   Zhao, Mingqiang ^a   Guan, Hong ^a   Li, Machao ^a   Shao, Zhujun ^a  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE; UREA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOSURVEILLANCE; CHINA; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; INTRACELLULAR BACTERIUM; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; PH; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEQUENCE BASED TYPING; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMAL SPRING; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENETIC VARIATION; HOT SPRINGS; LEGIONELLA; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; RECREATION; SEASONS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84875064683     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059018     Document Type: Article

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