The many forms of a pleomorphic bacterial pathogen-the developmental network of Legionella pneumophila.

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Published in Front Microbiol on December 22, 2014

Authors

Peter Robertson1, Hany Abdelhady1, Rafael A Garduño2

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University Halifax, NS, Canada.
2: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University Halifax, NS, Canada ; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University Halifax, NS, Canada.

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