Geckler 4/5 was defined as purulent sputum. The sputa of 104 of 124 Legionella pneumonia patients were cultured. Fifty-four patients (51.9%) were identified with Legionella species, most of which were Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 (81.5%). The identification rates of Legionella species ...
Thus, Legionella has been associated with freshwater environments, as it was believed it cannot proliferate in seawater [34]. However, several studies reported L. pneumophila is able to persist in seawater [29, 35, 37, 38]. In addition, the presence of diverse Legionella communities has been ...
HEPN–MNT, a type VII TA module, comprises the HEPN toxin and the MNT antitoxin, which acts as a nucleotidyltransferase that transfers the NMP moiety to the corresponding HEPN toxin, thereby interfering with its toxicity. Here, we report crystal structures of the Legionella pneumophila HEPN–MNT...
The Legionella testing kit industry is segmented into type, end user, and region. On the basis of type, the market is classified into culture media, urine antigen testing, polymerase chain reaction, serology, and direct fluorescent antibody test. By end user, the market is divided into hospital...
proteins as a nutrient source16,27. Several laboratory- or pilot-scale studies with pre-formed biofilms showedL. pneumophilacolonization of biofilms or replication in biofilms only in the presence of amoebae28,29,30,31, suggesting that the host is essential forL. pneumophilacolonization of biofilms...
Legionella pneumophilais a Gram-negative bacterium that inhabits both natural and artificial freshwater systems. It thrives within a complex aquatic microbiome, which includes other biofilm associated bacterial species and cyanobacteria1,2. It infects and replicates within amoebae and ciliates3but as an...
Thus, Legionella has been associated with freshwater environments, as it was believed it cannot proliferate in seawater [34]. However, several studies reported L. pneumophila is able to persist in seawater [29, 35, 37, 38]. In addition, the presence of diverse Legionella communities has been ...
pneumophila serogroup 1) have been described in health care facilities such as nursing homes (Carratalà and Garcia-Vidal, 2010; Martinelli et al., 2001; Napoli et al., 2010; Scaturro et al., 2007). According to the latest available data, in 2016 in Italy there were 28.2 cases of Legion...
Twenty-five clinical isolates of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 were classified as epidemic or sporadic on epidemiological grounds. All were isolated from patients at the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont (MCHV) in Burlington betwee... JR Joly,WC Winn - 《Journal of Infectious Diseases》 被引...
Legionella species are ubiquitously found in both natural and man-made water resources and live as a parasite of free-living amoeba species by forming biofilms (Abdel-Nour et al., 2019; Harding et al., 2013). The Legionella pneumophila is the most common cause for Legionellosis, accounting ...