Development of a new seminested PCR method for detection of Legionella species and its application to surveillance of legionellae in hospital cooling tower water /

Míreanna Comhchosúla

• Production of respirable vesicles containing live legionella pneumophila cells by two acanthamoeba spp. /
• Isolation of an amoeba naturally harboring a distinctive legionella species /
• Heterogeneity in the attachment and uptake mechanisms of the legionnaires' disease bacterium, legionella pneumophila, by protozoan hosts /
• Specific detection of legionella pneumophila : Construction of a new 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probe /
• Detection of Methylobacterium species by 16S rRNA gene-targeted PCR /
  le: Nishio, T.