Characteristic morphology of intracellular microcolonies of Legionella oakridgensis OR-10

Yuta Takekawa,a,* Mitsumasa Saito,a Changle Wang,a Tian Qin,b Midori Ogawa,c Takaaki Kanemaru,d Shin-ichi Yoshidaa aDepartment of Bacteriology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812 - 8582, Japan.

bNational Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention and State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, P.O. Box 5, Changping, Beijing 102206, People’s Republic of China.

cDepartment of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, 807 - 8555, Japan.

dDepartment of Morphology Core Unit, Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka, 812 - 8582, Japan.

*Present address: Mie Prefecture Health and Environment Research Institute, 3684-11 Sakura-machi, Yokkaichi, Mie 512-1211, Japan

Published on the web 20 January 2012.

Canadian Journal of Microbiology, 2012, 58:(2) 179-183, 10.1139/w11-126

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