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Population Genomics of Legionella longbeachae and Hidden Complexities of Infection Source Attribution.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 May 2017
Bacigalupe Rodrigo, Lindsay Diane, Edwards Giles, Fitzgerald J Ross
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Legionella longbeachae is the primary cause of legionellosis in Australasia and Southeast Asia and an emerging pathogen in Europe and the United States; however, our understanding of the population diversity of L. longbeachae from patient and environmental sources is limited. We analyzed the genomes of 64 L. longbeachae isolates, of which 29 were from a cluster of legionellosis cases linked to commercial growing...
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