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Free-living amoebae and their associated bacteria in Austrian cooling towers: a 1-year routine screening

Free-living amoebae (FLA) are widely spread in the environment and known to cause rare but often serious infections. Besides this, FLA may serve as vehicles for bacterial pathogens. In particular, Legionella pneumophila is known to replicate within FLA thereby also gaining enhanced infectivity. Cool...

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Published in:Parasitol Res
Main Authors: Scheikl, Ute, Tsao, Han-Fei, Horn, Matthias, Indra, Alexander, Walochnik, Julia
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4980419/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27177720
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00436-016-5097-z
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