A Giant Virus in Amoebae

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Authors

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

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

Topics & Keywords

Bacteriophages and microbial interactions Microbial infections and disease research Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Clean water and sanitation

Publication Details

Published in: Science

Volume 299, Issue 5615, pp. 2033-2033

DOI: 10.1126/science.1081867

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