An international trial of quantitative PCR for monitoring Legionella in artificial water systems.

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Published in J Appl Microbiol on February 18, 2011

Authors

J V Lee1, S Lai, M Exner, J Lenz, V Gaia, S Casati, P Hartemann, C Lück, B Pangon, M L Ricci, M Scaturro, S Fontana, M Sabria, I Sánchez, S Assaf, S Surman-Lee

Author Affiliations

1: Health Protection Agency, London, UK Institute for Hygiene and Public Health, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany Istituto Cantonale di Microbiologia, Bellinzona, Switzerland CHU Nancy, Nancy, France Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Technology, Dresden, Germany Unité de Microbiologie-Hygiène, CH Versailles, Versailles, France Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma, Italy Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Pall GeneSystems, Bruz, France.

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