Infection with Legionella spp. is an important cause of community-and hospital-acquired
pneumonia, occurring both sporadically and in outbreaks. Infection with Legionella spp …

Legionella are opportunistic pathogens that develop in aquatic environments where they
multiply in protozoa. When infected aerosols reach the human respiratory tract they may …

For bacterial typing to be useful, the development, validation and appropriate application of
typing methods must follow unified criteria. Over a decade ago, ESGEM, the ESCMID …

Water is the major natural reservoir for legionellae, and the bacteria are found worldwide in
many different natural and artificial aquatic environments, such as cooling towers, water …

ABSTRACT A previously described sequence-based epidemiological typing method for
clinical and environmental isolates of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 was extended …

In February, 2011, an 82-year-old woman was admitted to the intensive care unit with fever
and respiratory distress. She was conscious and responsive. Chest radiography showed …

Mapping of high-throughput sequencing (HTS) reads to a single arbitrary reference genome
is a frequently used approach in microbial genomics. However, the choice of a reference …

Clinical isolates of Legionella pneumophila, obtained from 167 patients, who acquired their
illness in the community in England and Wales between January 2000 and March 2008 …

Objectives Epidemiological investigations of Legionnaires' disease outbreaks rely on the
rapid identification and typing of clinical and environmental Legionella isolates in order to …

Seven gene loci of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 were analyzed as potential
epidemiological typing markers to aid in the investigation of legionella outbreaks. The genes …