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Serotyping of Legionella Bacteria Isolated from Various Water Systems in the Central Anatolia Region

European Journal of Biology, 2022
Objective: Legionella bacteria are waterborne environmental pathogens that are considered a public health problem because they cause Legionnaires' disease, which is a nationally notifiable disease. Materials and Methods: Legionella analysis was performed
Betül Gümüşlüoğlu, Nesrin Özsoy Erdaş   +1 more
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Legionella pneumophila [PDF]

Trends in Microbiology, 2021
Inês G. Gonçalves, Lúcia C. Simões, Manuel Simões   +2 more
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Legionnaires' disease in the renal transplant unit of "Hospital das Clinicas, FMUSP": during a five year period (1988-1993) Doença dos legionários na Unidade de Transplante Renal (UTR) do Hospital das Clínicas FMUSP, no período de 1988 a 1993

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1994
Several reports have related Legionella pneumophila with pneumonia in renal transplant patients, however this association has not been systematically documented in Brazil.
Neusa Augusta de Oliveira Mazieri, Cid Vieira Franco de Godoy, Solange Figueiredo Alves, Dahir Ramos de Andrade, Ana Sara S. Levin, Ana Cristina Hablitzel   +5 more
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Cooling tower Legionella pneumophila surveillance results: Vancouver, Canada, 2021

Journal of Water and Health, 2023
Cooling towers have been linked to Legionnaires' disease cases and outbreaks. Legionella pneumophila results (from a culture-based method) are presented for 557 cooling towers across the City of Vancouver, Canada for 2021. Results of 10 CFU/mL or greater
Christopher Radziminski, Phillip White
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Ecological distribution of Legionella pneumophila [PDF]

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 1981
Bacteria were concentrated 500-fold from 20-liter water samples collected from 67 different lakes and rivers in the United States. The data suggest that Legionella pneumophila is part of the natural aquatic environment and that the bacterium is capable of surviving extreme ranges of environmental conditions.
Fliermans, C. B., Cherry, W. B., Orrison, L. H., Smith, S. J., Tison, D. L., Pope, D. H.   +5 more
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Infections with Legionella pneumophila in Children [PDF]

Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1981
To learn the role of Legionella pneumophila, the agent of Legionnaires' disease, in childhood illness, a prospective study was conducted among 52 children younger than four years of age with acute disease of the lower respiratory tract. Viral, mycoplasmal, and bacterial cultures and acute- and convalescent-phase sera were obtained during 64 episodes of
R D, Andersen, B A, Lauer, D W, Fraser, P S, Hayes, K, McIntosh   +4 more
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Screening of Legionella pneumophila from water sources in the hospitals in Jakarta

Health Science Journal of Indonesia, 2019
Latar belakang: Pneumonia akibat bakteri Legionella masih menjadi masalah di berbagai tempat di dunia; menjadi penyebab 2-15 % dari pneumonia yang perlu di rawat di Rumah Sakit.
Lucky Moehario, T. Robertus, Yuliana Grace, Enty Tjoa   +3 more
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Uncovering Gaps in Knowledge: A Survey of Belgian General Practitioners’ Awareness of Legionnaires’ Disease Diagnostic Testing

Infectious Disease Reports
Background: The incidence of Legionnaires’ disease (LD) is increasing steadily in Europe. Its early diagnosis by general practitioners (GPs) is crucial for better patient outcomes. Study objectives: This study assessed Belgian GPs’ knowledge about LD and
Marco Moretti, Julien Van Nedervelde, Robin Vanstokstraeten, Lucie Seyler, Fedoua Echahidi, Benoit Prevost, Delphine Martiny, Ingrid Wybo, Charlotte Michel   +8 more
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Occurrence of macrolides resistance in Legionella pneumophila ST188: Results of the Belgian epidemiology and resistome investigation of clinical isolates

International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Objectives: The incidence of Legionnaires’ disease steadily increases worldwide. Although Legionella pneumophila is known as pathogenic, systematic investigations into antibiotic resistance are scarce, and reports of resistance in isolates are recently ...
Charlotte Michel, Fedoua Echahidi, Geraldine De Muylder, Max Sewell, Ian Boostrom, Olivier Denis, Owen B. Spiller, Denis Pierard   +7 more
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Contamination of Legionella pneumophila in metro cooling tower water and its influencing factors in a city

环境与职业医学
BackgroundThe detection rates of Legionella pneumophila in metro cooling tower water in various cities are relatively high, while studies investigating the trends of Legionella pneumophila pollution and analyzing its influencing factors are still limited.
Rong PENG, Bin SHI, Huaiji WANG, Junling LIU, Fang WANG   +4 more
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