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Legionella pneumophila pangenome reveals strain-specific virulence factors

BACKGROUND: Legionella pneumophila subsp. pneumophila is a gram-negative γ-Proteobacterium and the causative agent of Legionnaires' disease, a form of epidemic pneumonia. It has a water-related life cycle. In industrialized cities L. pneumophila is commonly encountered in refrigeration towers a...

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Autores principales: D'Auria, Giuseppe, Jiménez-Hernández, Nuria, Peris-Bondia, Francesc, Moya, Andrés, Latorre, Amparo
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2859405/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20236513
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-11-181