Prevalence and diversity of Chlamydiales and other amoeba-resisting bacteria in domestic drinking water systems.

ABSTRACT: A growing number of human infections incriminate environmental bacteria that have evolved virulent mechanisms to resist amoebae and use them as a replicative niche. These bacteria are designated amoeba-resisting bacteria (ARB). Despite the isolation of these ARB in various human clinical samples, the possible source of infection remains undetermined in most cases. However, it is known that the ARB Legionella pneumophila, for instance, causes a respiratory infection in susceptible hosts after inhalation of contaminated water aerosols from various sources. The Chlamydiales order contains many ARB, such as Parachlamydia acanthamoebae or Simkania negevensis, previously implicated in human respiratory infections with no identified contamination sources. We thus inves

SUBMITTER: Lienard J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5219624 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature