A Giant Virus in Amoebae
Bernard La Scola(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Stéphane Audic(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Catherine Robert(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Jungang Liang(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Xavier de Lamballerie(Institut de Neurobiologie de la Méditerranée), Michel Drancourt(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Richard J. Birtles(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Jean‐Michel Claverie(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Didier Raoult(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
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Abstract
During a study following a pneumonia outbreak in 1992, a microorganism growing in amoebae and resembling a small Gram-positive coccus ([Fig. 1][1]A) was isolated from the water of a cooling tower in Bradford, England. Despite attempts with various extraction protocols and low-stringency polymerase
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