Legionella rowbothamii

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Legionella rowbothamii
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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Legionellales
Family: Legionellaceae
Genus: Legionella
Species:
L. rowbothamii
Binomial name
Legionella rowbothamii
Adeleke et al. 2001 [1]
Type strain
ATCC 700991, CCUG 43886, CIP 107646, LLAP-6 [2]

Legionella rowbothamii is a Gram-negative, catalase-positive, oxidase-negative bacterium from the genus Legionella which was isolated from water and sludge from an industrial liquifier tower. Discovered by Tim Rowbotham. [3] [4] [5] [6]

References

  1. LPSN lpsn.dsmz.de
  2. "Straininfo of Legionella rowbothamii". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2013-11-15.
  3. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology Archived 2015-05-13 at the Wayback Machine
  4. UniProt
  5. ATCC
  6. Adeleke, AA; Fields, BS; Benson, RF; Daneshvar, MI; Pruckler, JM; Ratcliff, RM; Harrison, TG; Weyant, RS; Birtles, RJ; Raoult, D; Halablab, MA (2001). "Legionella drozanskii sp. nov., Legionella rowbothamii sp. nov. and Legionella fallonii sp. nov.: three unusual new Legionella species". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 51 (3): 1151–60. doi: 10.1099/00207713-51-3-1151 . PMID   11411684.