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Characterization and resuscitation of ‘non-culturable’ cells of Legionella pneumophila

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Microbiology, January 2014
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Title
Characterization and resuscitation of ‘non-culturable’ cells of Legionella pneumophila
Published in
BMC Microbiology, January 2014
DOI 10.1186/1471-2180-14-3
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Authors

Adrien Ducret, Maïalène Chabalier, Sam Dukan

Abstract

Legionella pneumophila is a waterborne pathogen responsible for Legionnaires' disease, an infection which can lead to potentially fatal pneumonia. After disinfection, L. pneumophila has been detected, like many other bacteria, in a "viable but non culturable" state (VBNC). The physiological significance of the VBNC state is unclear and controversial: it could be an adaptive response favoring long-term survival; or the consequence of cellular deterioration which, despite maintenance of certain features of viable cells, leads to death; or an injured state leading to an artificial loss of culturability during the plating procedure. VBNC cells have been found to be resuscitated by contact with amoebae.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Portugal 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Slovenia 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 122 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 28 22%
Student > Master 27 21%
Researcher 24 19%
Student > Bachelor 8 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 6%
Other 11 9%
Unknown 22 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 41 32%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 13 10%
Immunology and Microbiology 13 10%
Environmental Science 12 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 7%
Other 14 11%
Unknown 26 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 January 2015.
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#3,905,810
of 22,738,543 outputs
Outputs from BMC Microbiology
#392
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#46,970
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Microbiology
#15
of 72 outputs
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