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Legionella confirmation in cooling tower water

Comparison of culture, real-time PCR and next generation sequencing

Maha Farhat, Raja A. Shaheed, Haidar H. Al-Ali, Abdullah S. Al-Ghamdi, Ghadeer M. Al-Hamaqi, Hawraa S. Maan, Zainab A. Al-Mahfoodh and Hussain Z. Al-Seba
Saudi Medical Journal February 2018, 39 (2) 137-141; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2018.2.21587

Article Information

vol. 39 no. 2 137-141
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2018.2.21587
PubMed 
29436561
Published By 
Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received October 26, 2017
  • Accepted January 11, 2018
  • Published online February 1, 2018.
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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Maha Farhat, MSc, PhD⇑,
  2. Raja A. Shaheed, MBBS,
  3. Haidar H. Al-Ali, MBBS,
  4. Abdullah S. Al-Ghamdi, MBBS,
  5. Ghadeer M. Al-Hamaqi, MBBS,
  6. Hawraa S. Maan, MBBS,
  7. Zainab A. Al-Mahfoodh, MBBS and
  8. Hussain Z. Al-Seba, MBBS
  1. From the Department of Biochemistry (Farhat), Department of Epidemic Diseases Research (Farhat), College of Medicine (Shaheed, Aall-Ali, Al-Ghamdi, Al-Hamaqi, Maan, Al-Mahfoodh, Al-Seba), Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Maha Farhat, Department of Biochemistry, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kindgdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: mFarhat{at}iau.edu.sa ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-9302-9317
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