Ingrid Brettar
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Zayed A, Bitar D, Steinert M, Luck C, Sproer C, Brettar I, et al.
Microorganisms
. 2023 Feb;
11(2).
PMID: 36838414
is an environmental bacterium and clinical pathogen that causes many life-threating outbreaks of an atypical pneumonia called Legionnaires' disease (LD). Studies of this pathogen have focused mainly on Europe and...
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Zayed A, Bunk B, Jaber L, Abu-Teer H, Ali M, Steinert M, et al.
Eur Clin Respir J
. 2023 Jan;
10(1):2168346.
PMID: 36698751
Background: is water-based bacterium causing Legionnaires' disease (LD). We describe the first documented case of nosocomial LD caused by sequence type (ST) 461 and serogroup 6. The etiology of LD...
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Zayed A, Pecellin M, Jaber L, Butmeh S, Bahader S, Steinert M, et al.
Pathogens
. 2021 Apr;
10(4).
PMID: 33915921
is the causative agent of Legionnaires' disease. Due to the hot climate and intermittent water supply, the West Bank, Palestine, can be considered a high-risk area for this often fatal...
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Zayed A, Butmeh S, Pecellin M, Salah A, Alalam H, Steinert M, et al.
Pathogens
. 2020 Dec;
9(12).
PMID: 33271905
The West Bank can be considered as a high-risk area for prevalence in drinking water due to high ambient temperature, intermittent water supply, frequent pressure loss, and storage of drinking...
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Zayed A, Pecellin M, Salah A, Alalam H, Butmeh S, Steinert M, et al.
Pathogens
. 2020 Oct;
9(11).
PMID: 33105606
The West Bank can be considered a high-risk area for Legionnaires' disease (LD) due to its hot climate, intermittent water supply and roof storage of drinking water. , mostly ,...
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Deng J, Auchtung J, Konstantinidis K, Brettar I, Hofle M, Tiedje J
mSystems
. 2019 Oct;
4(5).
PMID: 31615877
was the dominant culturable nitrate-reducing bacterium in the eutrophic and strongly stratified Baltic Sea in the 1980s, where it primarily inhabited the oxic-anoxic transition zone. The genomic structures of 46...
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Sharaby Y, Nitzan O, Brettar I, Hofle M, Peretz A, Halpern M
Sci Rep
. 2019 Apr;
9(1):6138.
PMID: 30992549
Legionella pneumophila causes human lung infections resulting in severe pneumonia. High-resolution genotyping of L. pneumophila isolates can be achieved by multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA-8). Legionella infections in humans occur...
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Pereira R, Peplies J, Mushi D, Brettar I, Hofle M
Front Microbiol
. 2018 Sep;
9:1958.
PMID: 30186269
species are frequent inhabitants of freshwater environments and colonizers of water supply networks via bioadhesion and biofilm formation. is the species most commonly associated with human disease, causing a wide...
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Jaber L, Amro M, Tair H, Bahader S, Alalam H, Butmeh S, et al.
Epidemiol Infect
. 2018 Aug;
146(16):2116-2121.
PMID: 30157982
Legionella pneumophila genotyping is important for epidemiological investigation of nosocomial and community-acquired outbreaks of legionellosis. The prevalence of legionellosis in pneumonia patients in the West Bank was monitored for the...
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Sharaby Y, Rodriguez-Martinez S, Pecellin M, Sela R, Peretz A, Hofle M, et al.
Appl Environ Microbiol
. 2018 Mar;
84(10).
PMID: 29523542
causes water-based infections resulting in severe pneumonia. Recently, we showed that different MLVA-8 (multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis using 8 loci) genotypes dominated different sites of a drinking-water distribution system. Each...