Legionella species
Legionella Species Isolated from Cooling Towers in Kuala Lumpur
... Legionlla species isolated from cooling towers in Kuala Lumpur Med J Malaysia Vol 47 No 1 Marcl11992 Legionella species isolated from cooling towers in Kuala Lumpur Y F Ngeow MBBS, MSc CHTan SYLim Dep[.] ...
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Identification of Legionella Species by Use of an Oligonucleotide Array
... of species-specific oligonucleotide ...single Legionella species, depending on the availability of divergent sequences in the mip regions (Table ...inter- species sequence divergences were ...
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Usefulness of Fatty Acid Composition for Differentiation of Legionella Species
... described species of the genus Legionella that can be cultured in laboratory media, was used to differentiate between the species of this ...autofluorescent species had very similar fatty acid ...
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Identification of Legionella Species by Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Profiles
... Leptospira species, this method has been successfully applied for species identification (9, 18, ...autofluorescent Legionella species, allowing identifica- tion for the first time of a ...
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Clinical Application of a Multiplex Real Time PCR Assay for Simultaneous Detection of Legionella Species, Legionella pneumophila, and Legionella pneumophila Serogroup 1
... Analytical specificity of the multiplex assay was 100% (data not shown), as verified using a comprehensive panel of 215 clinical and environmental isolates representing 52 Legionella species and 44 ...
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Characterization of Legionella Species from Watersheds in British Columbia, Canada
... common Legionella 16S rRNA gene-based OTU amplified from water samples along a French river were asso- ciated with unknown/uncultured bacteria ...pneumophila Legionella species are associated with ...
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Comparative analyses of Legionella species identifies genetic features of strains causing Legionnaires’ disease
... five species of the genus Legionella and the comparison of the genomes of human disease-related strains with non-disease-related strains have provided new insights into the genomic speci- ficities related ...
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Development and Clinical Evaluation of an Internally Controlled, Single Tube Multiplex Real Time PCR Assay for Detection of Legionella pneumophila and Other Legionella Species
... Therefore, nucleic acid amplification techniques are attrac- tive tools for detection of legionellae in clinical samples, as they are able to detect all legionellae and provide rapid results. It is, however, still ...
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Demonstration of extracellular chymotrypsin like activity from various Legionella species
... Demonstration of extracellular proteolytic enzymes from Legionella species strains by using synthetic chromogenic peptide substrates.. Designing of peptide substrates.[r] ...
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Direct Detection of Legionella Species from Bronchoalveolar Lavage and Open Lung Biopsy Specimens: Comparison of LightCycler PCR, In Situ Hybridization, Direct Fluorescence Antigen Detection, and Culture
... of Legionella species in environmental specimens, serum, urine, throat swabs, and BAL specimens (1, 6, 22, 24, 27, 28, 32, 33, 35–38, 40, 42, 46, 49, ...detect Legionella in these spec- imens (6, 22, ...
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Cellular fatty acid compositions and isoprenoid quinone contents of 23 Legionella species
... as the major acid at concentrations approximately twice that of Cj16:0 were designated as the A15 group Table 2; and the remaining seven species, which contained both Cal5 0 and Cj16:0 a[r] ...
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Role of keto acids and reduced oxygen scavenging enzymes in the growth of Legionella species
... All strains appeared to be equally sensitive to the effects of superoxide anion 02- generated by light-activated riboflavin, and all were equally protected by the presence of keto acids [r] ...
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Molecular epidemiology of Legionella species by restriction endonuclease and alloenzyme analysis
... While investigating nosocomial Legionella infections at Stanford University Medical Center SUMC, we had the opportunity to evaluate REA fingerprints of Legionella pneumophila, Legionella[r] ...
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Guanine is a growth factor for Legionella species
... On the basis of these results, basal ABCD broth was supplemented with a purine-pyrimidine mix solution 12; Table 1, and 25 strains representing 11 species and 11 different serogroups wer[r] ...
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Microbiological and Clinical Studies of Legionellosis in 33 Patients with Cancer
... of Legionella infections that occurred at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, from 2002 to ...The Legionella strains were isolated from bronchoscopy speci- mens (32 strains) and ...
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Characterization of Members of the Legionellaceae Family by Automated Ribotyping
... that L. pneumophila subsp. fraseri could be separated from other subspecies of L. pneumophila by four restriction enzymes (3). We also noticed that there did not seem to be any corre- lation between the 15 serotypes of ...
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Use of monoclonal antibodies in an epidemiological marker system: a retrospective study of lung specimens from the 1976 outbreak of Legionnaires disease in Philadelphia by indirect fluorescent antibody and enzyme linked immunosorbent assay methods
... The present retrospective study was undertaken to determine whether, with the use of a panvalent IFA test system, Legionella species or serogroups other than Lp-1 could be detected in cl[r] ...
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Development and Evaluation of Chlamylege, a New Commercial Test Allowing Simultaneous Detection and Identification of Legionella, Chlamydophila pneumoniae, and Mycoplasma pneumoniae in Clinical Respiratory Specimens by Multiplex PCR
... and Legionella pneumophila, ...with Legionella species infection, and 114 samples that tested negative for the three ...a Legionella species other than ...
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Comparison of Legionella pneumophila, L micdadei, L bozemanii, and L dumoffii by transmission electron microscopy
... Cells of all four Legionella species possessed cytoplasmic vacuoles, a gram-negative type of cell envelope with a dense peptidoglycan-like layer, a ruthenium red-positive polysaccharide [r] ...
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Monoclonal antibodies to Legionella Mip proteins recognize genus- and species-specific epitopes.
... be species spe- cific (Fig. 1B). Up to now, species-specific protein epitopes of ...the species-specific Mip ...known Legionella species and that the Mip molecules of ...
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