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Legionella feeleii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Gammaproteobacteria
Order:	Legionellales
Family:	Legionellaceae
Genus:	Legionella
Species:	L. feeleii
Binomial name
Legionella feeleii Herwaldt et al. 1984
Type strain
ATCC 35072, CCUG 16417, CIP 103877, DSM 17645, Goorman WO-44C, NCTC 12022, WO-44C

Legionella feeleii is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium from the genus Legionella which was isolated from an automobile plant and which was held responsible for causing Pontiac fever in 317 workers. The organism did not grow on blood agar, required L-cysteine, and showed significant quantities of branched-chain fatty acids. More recently, an unusual, extrapulmonary case was described in a 66-year-old woman admitted to Hopital Nord, Marseille, France because of a complicated cellulitis and an abscess on her right leg following a suspected insect or spider bite.

In 2024 a few dozens people have been infected by Legionella feeleii during a music party/live dj set in Bologna, Italy in a building that was filled with water vapor for the purposes of the party itself. According to different sources from around 60 to more than 100 people had the typical Pontiac Fever symptoms.

References

1. LPSN lpsn.dsmz.de
2. Straininfo of Legionella feeleii
3. Herwaldt LA, Gorman GW, McGrath T, Toma S, Brake B, Hightower AW, Jones J, Reingold AL, Boxer PA, Tang PW (March 1984). "A new Legionella species, Legionella feeleii species nova, causes Pontiac fever in an automobile plant". Annals of Internal Medicine. 100 (3): 333–8. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-100-3-333. PMID 6696354.
4. Universal protein resource accession number Q49L36 for "IcmS" at UniProt.Uniprot
5. Loridant S, Lagier JC, La Scola B (January 2011). "Identification of Legionella feeleii cellulitis". Emerging Infectious Diseases. 17 (1): 145–6. doi:10.3201/eid1701.101346. PMC 3204652. PMID 21192884.
6. "Nessun virus: quella che ha colpito i clienti delle Serre era legionella". BolognaToday (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-12-18.
7. "Bologna, contagiata alle Serre dei Giardini: "Febbre alta e malesseri come una mia amica, diagnosi di polmonite batterica. Sospetti? La macchina del fumo"". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 2024-12-07. Retrieved 2024-12-18.

External links

• Type strain of Legionella feeleii at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

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