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- Title
Legionnaires Disease Advances.
- Authors
Stephenson, Joan
- Abstract
Mentions two studies on the bacterium genome that causes legionnaires disease. Success of an international team in sequencing a Legionella pneumophila strain from the 1976 isolate that caused an outbreak in the United States; Adaptability of the microbe; Online availability of a report by French researchers; Identification of proteins that are thought to aid the bacteria in adapting to humans; Implication for new treatments.
- Subjects
UNITED States; FRANCE; LEGIONNAIRES' disease; MICROBIAL genomes; LEGIONELLA pneumophila; DISEASE risk factors; ETIOLOGY of diseases; GENETIC research
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2004, Vol 292, Issue 19, p2329
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.292.19.2329-b