Culture of Clinical Specimens Reveals Extensive Diversity of <named-content content-type="genus-species">Legionella pneumophila</named-content> Strains in Arizona

Culture of Clinical Specimens Reveals Extensive Diversity of <named-content content-type="genus-species">Legionella pneumophila</named-content> Strains in Arizona

ABSTRACT Between 2000 and 2017, a total of 236 Legionella species isolates from Arizona were submitted to the CDC for reference testing. Most of these isolates were recovered from bronchoalveolar lavage specimens. Although the incidence of legionellosis in Arizona is less than the overall U.S. incid...

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Main Authors: Brian H. Raphael, Trung Huynh, Ellen Brown, Jessica C. Smith, Irene Ruberto, Linda Getsinger, Stacy White, Jonas M. Winchell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019-02-01
Series:mSphere
Subjects:
Legionella pneumophila
clinical microbiology
genomic epidemiology
public health
whole-genome MLST
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00649-18

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https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00649-18

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