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Published on: October 27, 2013
Isolation of Legionella pneumophila from pluvial floods by amoebal coculture
J A C Schalk1, A E Docters van Leeuwen, W J Lodder
1National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands. marjolijn.schalk@rivm.nl.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|April 3, 2012
Abstract:
Viable Legionella pneumophila bacteria were isolated by amoebal coculture from pluvial floods after intense rainfall and from water collected at sewage treatment plants. Several isolated L. pneumophila strains belonged to sequence types that have been previously identified in patients.
