1. Isolation of Legionella pneumophila by Co-culture with Local Ameba, Canada
- Author
-
Harley O’Connor Mount, Nicholas J. Ashbolt, Linda P Ward, Rafik Dey, Greg J Tyrrell, and Alex W Ensminger
- Subjects
Microbiology (medical) ,Serotype ,Canada ,Epidemiology ,030231 tropical medicine ,lcsh:Medicine ,Biology ,Legionella pneumophila ,Disease Outbreaks ,Microbiology ,lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,case report ,Public Health Surveillance ,lcsh:RC109-216 ,030212 general & internal medicine ,bacteria ,Amoeba ,Phylogeny ,Legionellosis ,Whole Genome Sequencing ,Isolation of Legionella pneumophila by Co-culture with Local Ameba, Canada ,lcsh:R ,Dispatch ,Isolation (microbiology) ,medicine.disease ,biology.organism_classification ,bacterial infections and mycoses ,Coculture Techniques ,Infectious Diseases ,hot tub ,ameba ,Legionnaires' disease ,Legionnaires' Disease ,coculture ,Genome, Bacterial ,Legionnaires’ disease ,Legionella pneumophila serogroup - Abstract
Legionellosis was diagnosed in an immunocompromised 3-year-old girl in Canada. We traced the source of the bacterium through co-culture with an ameba collected from a hot tub in her home. We identified Legionella pneumophila serogroup 6, sequence type 185, and used whole-genome sequencing to confirm the environmental and clinical isolates were of common origin.
- Published
- 2019