Seeding and Establishment of Legionella pneumophila in Hospitals: Implications for Genomic Investigations of Nosocomial Legionnaires’ Disease

BACKGROUND. Legionnaires’ disease is an important cause of hospital-acquired pneumonia and is caused by infection with the bacterium Legionella. Because current typing methods often fail to resolve the infection source in possible nosocomial cases, we aimed to determine whether whole-genome sequenci...

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Autores principales: David, Sophia, Afshar, Baharak, Mentasti, Massimo, Ginevra, Christophe, Podglajen, Isabelle, Harris, Simon R., Chalker, Victoria J., Jarraud, Sophie, Harrison, Timothy G., Parkhill, Julian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5399934/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28203790
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/cix153

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5399934/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28203790
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/cix153

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