Merck Releases High-sensitive Legionella Detection Kit for Water Analysis.Tokyo, Japan, May 19, 2006 - (JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) ) - Merck announced on May 18 that it has launched Duopath Legionella Legionella /Le·gion·el·la/ (le?jah-nel´ah) a genus of gram-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped bacteria (family Legionellaceae), normal inhabitants of lakes, streams, and moist soil; they have often been isolated from cooling-tower water, , a proprietary test kit for detecting Legionella in water samples. The new test kit, which is based on immunochromatographic assay, can identify all Legionella species and Legionella pneumophila Legionella pneumophila is a thin, pleomorphic, flagellated Gram-negative bacterium of the genus Legionella.[1] L. pneumophila is the primary human pathogen in this group and is the causative agent of legionellosis or Legionnaires' disease. , the most prominently-expressed species in a single test. The new test will substantially support operations at all types of water analysis laboratories. The genus genus, in taxonomy: see classification. genus Biological classification. It ranks below family and above species, consisting of structurally or phylogenetically (see Legionella normally inhabits in natural aquatic environments. Currently, 42 species of Legionalle, which cause serious infections including pneumonia, are identified. Copyright [c] 2006 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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