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Free-living amoebae and their associated bacteria in Austrian cooling towers: a 1-year routine screening

Free-living amoebae (FLA) are widely spread in the environment and known to cause rare but often serious infections. Besides this, FLA may serve as vehicles for bacterial pathogens. In particular, Legionella pneumophila is known to replicate within FLA thereby also gaining enhanced infectivity. Cool...

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Autores principales: Scheikl, Ute, Tsao, Han-Fei, Horn, Matthias, Indra, Alexander, Walochnik, Julia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4980419/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27177720
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00436-016-5097-z