TY - JOUR AU - Dey, Rafik AU - Mount, Harley AU - Ensminger, Alex AU - Tyrrell, Greg AU - Ward, Linda AU - Ashbolt, Nicholas T1 - Isolation of Legionella pneumophila by Co-culture with Local Ameba, Canada T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2019 VL - 25 IS - 11 SP - 2104 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Legionellosis was diagnosed in an immunocompromised 3-year-old girl in Canada. We traced the source of the bacterium through co-culture with an ameba collected from a hot tub in her home. We identified Legionella pneumophila serogroup 6, sequence type 185, and used whole-genome sequencing to confirm the environmental and clinical isolates were of common origin. KW - Legionellosis KW - case report KW - hot tub KW - Legionella pneumophila KW - ameba KW - coculture KW - bacteria KW - Canada KW - Legionnaires’ disease DO - 10.3201/eid2511.190522 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/11/19-0522_article ER - End of Reference