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Prevalence of sequence types among clinical and environmental isolates of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 in the United States from 1982 to 2012.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jan 2014
Kozak-Muiznieks Natalia A, Lucas Claressa E, Brown Ellen, Pondo Tracy, Taylor Thomas H, Frace Michael, Miskowski Diane, Winchell Jonas M
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Since the establishment of sequence-based typing as the gold standard for DNA-based typing of Legionella pneumophila, the Legionella laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has conducted routine sequence-based typing (SBT) analysis of all incoming L. pneumophila serogroup 1 (Lp1) isolates to identify potential links between cases and to better understand genetic diversity and clonal...
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