''Legionella oakridgensis'' is a
Gram-negative
Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. They are characterized by their cell envelopes, which are composed of a thin peptidoglycan cell wa ...
bacterium
Bacteria (; singular: bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell. They constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria were amon ...
from the genus ''
Legionella
''Legionella'' is a genus of pathogenic gram-negative bacteria that includes the species '' L. pneumophila'', causing legionellosis (all illnesses caused by ''Legionella'') including a pneumonia-type illness called Legionnaires' disease and a mil ...
'' which was isolated from industrial
cooling tower
A cooling tower is a device that rejects waste heat to the atmosphere through the cooling of a coolant stream, usually a water stream to a lower temperature. Cooling towers may either use the evaporation of water to remove process heat an ...
waters.
It is
pathogen
In biology, a pathogen ( el, πάθος, "suffering", "passion" and , "producer of") in the oldest and broadest sense, is any organism or agent that can produce disease. A pathogen may also be referred to as an infectious agent, or simply a germ ...
ic.
[Presti, François Lo, et al. "Isolation of Legionella oakridgensis from Two Patients with Pleural Effusion Living in the Same Geographical Area." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 38.8 (2000): 3128-3130.]
References
Further reading
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External links
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Type strain of ''Legionella oakridgensis'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Legionellales
Bacteria described in 1983
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