Isolation of Legionella pneumophila by Co-culture with Local Ameba, Canada

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Dey, Rafik ; Mount, Harley ; Ensminger, Alex W. ; Tyrrell, Greg J. ; Ward, Linda P. ; Ashbolt, Nicholas J.
• Description:
  Legionellosis was diagnosed in an immunocompromised 3-year-old girl in Canada. We traced the source of the bacterium through co-culture with an ameba collected from a hot tub in her home. We identified Legionella pneumophila serogroup 6, sequence type 185, and used whole-genome sequencing to confirm the environmental and clinical isolates were of common origin.
• Subjects:
  Amoeba Coculture Techniques Disease Outbreaks Genome, Bacterial Humans Legionella Pneumophila Legionnaires' Disease Phylogeny Public Health Surveillance Whole Genome Sequencing
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 25(11):2104-2107
• Pubmed ID:
  31625866
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6810206
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Canada
• Volume:
  25
• Issue:
  11
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:12f39f755c055227e737afe0a7600181cd42be7b170ecede58c4dc0246827d83
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/83000/cdc_83000_DS1.pdf
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