TY - JOUR
AU - Spriggs, Dale R.
AB - THE JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES • VOL. 155, NO.5· MAY 1987 © 1987 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. 0022-1899/87/5505-0046$01.00 EDITORS' CHOICE One of the interesting spin-offs of the discovery of Legion­ in the summer. The photosynthesis floods the ecosystem naires' disease arose from a paradox. From an infectious with nutrients and amplifies the number of bacteria, which disease standpoint, Legionella is a facultative intracellu­ are trapped (quite happily) in the slime matrix of the mat. lar pathogen especially fastidious in its growth require­ The organisms detected in screening are "fugitives" from ments in the laboratory. Legionella, however, is also a ubiq­ the nutrient-rich community and are released either by uitous member of the aquatic environment and survives reproduction or physical forces. The bacteria in the com­ quite nicely in habitats that seem inhospitable to such munity, however, make a contribution because they gener­ finicky bacteria. ate CO , which the photosynthesizing organisms use to Several descriptive studies of the environmental inci­ make more food. This interaction is called mutualism, and dence and growth of Legion ella have been published, e.g., Legionella certainly enjoys a similar fate in some of its [1,2], but most have not considered 
TI - Legionella, Microbial Ecology, and Inconspicuous Consumption
JF - The Journal of Infectious Diseases
DO - 10.1093/infdis/155.5.1086
DA - 1987-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/legionella-microbial-ecology-and-inconspicuous-consumption-B1EdTIoSZI
SP - 1086
EP - 1087
VL - 155
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -