Osvalda De Giglio, Marilena D'Ambrosio, Valentina Spagnuolo, Giusy Diella, Fabrizio Fasano, Carla Maria Leone, Marco Lopuzzo, Valeria Trallo, Carla Calia, Marta Oliva, Carlo Pazzani, Lucilla Iacumin, Sofia Barigelli, Maya Petricciuolo, Ermanno Federici, Francesco Paolo Lisena, Anna Maria Minicucci, Maria Teresa Montagna
Understanding the actual distribution of different Legionella species in water networks would help prevent outbreaks. Culture investigations followed by serological agglutination tests, with poly/monovalent antisera, still represent the gold standard for isolation and identification of Legionella strains. However, also MALDI-TOF and mip-gene sequencing are currently used. This study was conducted to genetically correlate strains of Legionella non pneumophila (L-np) isolated during environmental surveillance comparing different molecular techniques...
March 22, 2023: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment