Legionella nagasakiensis

Legionella nagasakiensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Proteobacteria
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Legionellales
Family: Legionellaceae
Genus: Legionella
Species: L. nagasakiensis
Binomial name
Legionella nagasakiensis
Yang et al. 2012[1]
Type strain
ATCC BAA-1557, CDC-1796-JAP-E, JCM 15315[2]

Legionella nagasakiensis is a Gram-negative bacterium from the genus Legionella which was isolated from a sample of hot spring water in Aomori in Japan and from human lung tissue.[3][4][5][6][7] It is catalase-positive and rod-shaped, with a single polar flagellum.

References

  1. LPSN bacterio.net
  2. Straininfo of Legionella nagasakiensis
  3. PibMed
  4. UniProt
  5. PubMed
  6. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology Legionella nagasakiensis sp. nov., isolated from water samples and from a patient with pneumonia Genyan Yang, Robert F. Benson, Rodney M. Ratcliff, Ellen W. Brown, Arnold G. Steigerwalt, W. Lanier Thacker, Maryam I. Daneshvar, Roger E. Morey, Atsushi Saito and Barry S. Fields
  7. ATCC
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