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Last Posted: Jun 07, 2017

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• Legionnaires’ Disease- A problem for health care facilities 
  CDC Vital Signs, June 2017
• Rapid molecular detection of Legionella for outbreak response 
• Seeding and establishment of Legionella pneumophila in hospitals; implications for genomic investigations of nosocomial Legionnaires' disease.  
  David Sophia et al. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2017 Feb
• A Large Community Outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease Associated With a Cooling Tower in New York City, 2015.  
  Weiss Don et al. Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) 2017 Jan 33354916689620
• Complete Genome Sequences of Legionella pneumophila subsp. fraseri Strains Detroit-1 and Dallas 1E.  
  Raphael Brian H et al. Genome announcements 2017 Feb 5(5)
• Differential Proteome Between Patient-Related and Non-related Environmental Isolates of Legionella pneumophila.  
  Quero Sara et al. Current microbiology 2017 Jan
• Rapid detection and evolutionary analysis of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 sequence type 47.  
  Mentasti M et al. Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 2016 Nov
• Feature selection and validated predictive performance in the domain of Legionella pneumophila: a comparative study.  
  van der Ploeg Tjeerd et al. BMC research notes 2016 Mar 147
• Genomic Analysis Reveals Novel Diversity among the 1976 Philadelphia Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak Isolates and Additional ST36 Strains.  
  Mercante Jeffrey W et al. PloS one 11(9) e0164074
• Molecular Typing of Legionella pneumophila Isolates in the Province of Quebec from 2005 to 2015.  
  Lévesque Simon et al. PloS one 2016 (10) e0163818
• Energy Conservation and the Promotion of Legionella pneumophila Growth: The Probable Role of Heat Exchangers in a Nosocomial Outbreak.  
  Bédard Emilie et al. Infection control and hospital epidemiology 2016 Sep 1-6
• Multiple major disease-associated clones of Legionella pneumophila have emerged recently and independently.  
  David Sophia et al. Genome research 2016 Sep
• Dynamics of genome change among Legionella species.  
  Joseph Sandeep J et al. Scientific reports 2016 633442
• Complete Genome Sequences of the Historical Legionella pneumophila Strains OLDA and Pontiac.  
  Mercante Jeffrey W et al. Genome announcements 2016 4(4)
• Epidemiological Investigation of Legionella pneumophila serogroups 2-14 Isolates from Water Samples by Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism and Sequence-Based Typing and Detection of Virulence Traits.  
  Katsiaflaka Anna et al. Applied and environmental microbiology 2016 Aug
• Legionella DNA Markers in Tap Water Coincident with a Spike in Legionnaires’ Disease in Flint, MI  
  Schwake DO, et al. Environ Sci Technol Lett, Jul 8, 2016.