Legionella
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See also: legionella
Translingual
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Named after American Legion + -ella (taxonomic suffix), referring to an outbreak of pneumonia among those attending an American Legion convention first brought the legionella organisms to scientific attention.
Proper noun
[edit]Legionella f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Legionellaceae – gram-negative bacteria, including the species that causes Legionnaires' disease.
Hypernyms
[edit]- (genus): Prokaryota – superkingdom; Bacteria – kingdom; Negibacteria – subkingdom; Pseudomonadota – phylum; Gammaproteobacteria – class; Legionellales - order; Legionellaceae - family
Hyponyms
[edit]- (genus): Legionella pneumophila - type species; Legionella longbeachae, Legionella feeleii, Legionella micdadei, Legionella anisa - selected other species
References
[edit]- Legionella on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Legionella on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Legionella on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Legionella at List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature
- Legionella at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Legionella at World Register of Marine Species
- Legionella in the Genome Taxonomy Database