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Identification and serotyping of atypical Legionella pneumophila strains isolated from human and environmental sources.
Journal of applied microbiology - 1 Jan 2007
Helbig J H, Benson R F, Pelaz C, Jacobs E, Lück P C
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AIMS: To validate identification methods for Legionella pneumophila strains that cannot be serotyped into the known serogroups and to characterize their antigenic diversity. METHODS AND RESULTS: Fifty L. pneumophila strains that could not be serogrouped, but which had been confirmed as L. pneumophila by mip gene sequencing, were further identified phenotypically. We used (i) MONOFLUO anti-Legionella Staining...
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