Article
Sequence types diversity of Legionella pneumophila isolates from environmental water sources in Guangzhou and Jiangmen, China.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2015
Guo Jingyu, Liang Ting, Hu Chaohui, Lv Ruichen, Yang Xianwei, Cui Yujun, Song Youtao, Yang Ruifu, Zhu Qingyi, Song Yajun
Abstract excerpt
In this study, 159 Legionella pneumophila strains isolated from various natural and artificial water sources in Guangzhou and Jiangmen, China, were subjected to genotyping by the sequence-based typing (SBT) scheme. These isolates were assigned into 53 sequence types (STs) (50 STs with seven loci data and three unidentified STs with incomplete loci profiles) with ST1 as the dominant one (14.5%), and the index of...
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