Isolation of Legionella pneumophila by Co-culture with Local Ameba, Canada

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• Legionellosis
• case report
• hot tub
• Legionella pneumophila
• ameba
• coculture