"Pittsburgh pneumonia agent": a bacterium phenotypically similar to Legionella pneumophila and identical to the TATLOCK bacterium.

Annals of internal medicine ·Vol. 92 ·No. 1 ·1980-01-00 ·Pages 53-4

Hébert GA, Thomason BM, Harris PP, Hicklin MD, McKinney RM

Abstract

The "Pittsburgh pneumonia agent," isolated by Pasculle and co-workers from human lung tissue, has been cultured on artificial media and characterized. The "Pittsburgh" bacterium and the TATLOCK and HEBA bacteria have identical cultural, biochemical, and antigenic characteristics. They also have the same cellular fatty-acid composition, and DNA relatedness indicates that they belong to the same species.

MeSH Terms

Antigens, Bacterial Bacteriological Techniques DNA, Bacterial/genetics Fluorescent Antibody Technique Humans Legionnaires' Disease/microbiology Lung/microbiology Phenotype Pneumonia/microbiology Rickettsia/genetics,immunology,isolation & purification

Chemicals

Antigens, Bacterial DNA, Bacterial

Authors & Affiliations

5 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID

Hébert G A

Thomason B M

Harris P P

Hicklin M D

McKinney R M

Article Info

Journal

Annals of internal medicine

Abbr.

Ann Intern Med

ISSN

0003-4819

DOI

10.7326/0003-4819-92-1-53

Published

1980-01-00

Pages

53-4

Language

English

Region

United States

NLM ID

0372351

Subset

External Links

PubMed source DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-92-1-53 View journal details

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