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Australian isolates of Legionella longbeachae are not a clonal population.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Oct 1999
Montanaro-Punzengruber J C, Hicks L, Meyer W, Gilbert G L
Abstract excerpt
Legionella longbeachae is almost as frequent a cause of legionellosis in Australia as Legionella pneumophila, but epidemiological investigation of possible environmental sources and clinical cases has been limited by the lack of a discriminatory subtyping method. The purpose of this study was to examine the genetic variability among Australian isolates of L. longbeachae serogroup 1. Pulsed-field gel...
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