Genomic Stability of Legionella pneumophila Isolates Recovered from Two Cardiac Transplant Patients with Nosocomial Legionnaires' Disease-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Genomic Stability of Legionella pneumophila Isolates Recovered from Two Cardiac Transplant Patients with Nosocomial Legionnaires' Disease

Published:1994-12 Issue:12 Volume:32 Page:3085-3087
ISSN:0095-1137
Container-title:Journal of Clinical Microbiology
language:en
Short-container-title:J Clin Microbiol

Author:

Marrie Thomas J.¹²,Johnson Wendy M.²³,Tyler Shaun D.³,Bezanson Gregory S.²,Burbridge Susan¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Victoria General Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

2. Department of Microbiology, Dalhousie University, Victoria General Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

3. Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Abstract

Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis revealed that multiple consecutive isolates of Legionella pneumophila from two cardiac transplant patients remained genomically stable, despite exposure to host defenses and antimicrobial agents.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Microbiology (medical)

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/jcm.32.12.3085-3087.1994

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