Molecular typing of Legionella pneumophila isolates from environmental water samples and clinical samples using a five-gene sequence typing and standard Sequence-Based Typing

Xiao-Yong Zhan; Qing-Yi Zhu

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0190986

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Molecular typing of Legionella pneumophila isolates from environmental water samples and clinical samples using a five-gene sequence typing and standard Sequence-Based Typing

Xiao-Yong Zhan ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: tsinghan@126.com

Affiliations Guangzhou KingMed Center for Clinical Laboratory, Guangzhou, China, KingMed School of Laboratory Medicine, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5809-7904

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Qing-Yi Zhu

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Affiliations Guangzhou KingMed Center for Clinical Laboratory, Guangzhou, China, KingMed School of Laboratory Medicine, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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Molecular typing of Legionella pneumophila isolates from environmental water samples and clinical samples using a five-gene sequence typing and standard Sequence-Based Typing

Xiao-Yong Zhan,
Qing-Yi Zhu

Published: February 1, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190986

About the Authors

Xiao-Yong Zhan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: tsinghan@126.com

Affiliations Guangzhou KingMed Center for Clinical Laboratory, Guangzhou, China, KingMed School of Laboratory Medicine, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5809-7904

Qing-Yi Zhu

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Affiliations Guangzhou KingMed Center for Clinical Laboratory, Guangzhou, China, KingMed School of Laboratory Medicine, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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