Soil as a source of Legionella pneumophila sequence type 47
| Autor: | Johanna A.C. Schalk, Eri van Heijnsbergen, Sjoerd M. Euser, Ana Maria de Roda Husman, Jeroen W. Den Boer, Jacob P. Bruin |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Předmět: |
Microbiology (medical)
biology Legionella Pontiac fever Outbreak Whirlpool General Medicine biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Legionella pneumophila Virology lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases Microbiology Natural soil Infectious Diseases Source investigation ST47 medicine Humans lcsh:RC109-216 Legionnaires' Disease Soil Microbiology Sequence (medicine) |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol 27, Iss C, Pp 18-19 (2014) |
| ISSN: | 1201-9712 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijid.2014.05.009 |
| Popis: | Summary Legionella pneumophila sequence type (ST) 47 was isolated from soil in a garden. We speculate that this strain was transmitted from soil to the whirlpool in the garden where it caused an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease and Pontiac fever. In the Netherlands, ST47 is frequently isolated from patients, but hardly ever from environmental sources. It is possible that human pathogenic Legionella strains, with ST47 as one of the predominant strains, are transmitted to humans from sources such as natural soil that are currently not targeted in outbreak investigations. |
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