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Persistent presence of outer membrane epitopes during short- and long-term starvation of five Legionella pneumophila strains

BACKGROUND: Legionella pneumophila, the causative agent of Legionnaire’s disease, may enter a viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state triggered by environmental stress conditions. Specific outer-membrane epitopes of L. pneumophila are used in many diagnostic applications and some of them are linked t...

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Autores principales: Schrammel, Barbara, Petzold, Markus, Cervero-Aragó, Sílvia, Sommer, Regina, Lück, Christian, Kirschner, Alexander
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6050704/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30016940
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12866-018-1220-x