Complete Genome Sequence of Legionella sainthelensi Isolated from a Patient with Legionnaires' Disease.

ABSTRACT: Legionella sainthelensi is an aquatic environmental bacterium that in humans can cause Legionnaires' disease (LD), an often severe form of pneumonia. Here, we report the first complete genome of a L. sainthelensi clinical isolate obtained in 2001 from a patient with LD in Canterbury, New Zealand.

SUBMITTER: Slow S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5794962 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature