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        <article-title>Classification of the Legionnaires' disease bacterium: Legionella pneumophila, genus novum, species nova, of the family Legionellaceae, familia nova.</article-title>
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            <surname>Saunders</surname>
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            <surname>Birtles</surname>
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        <article-title>Phylogeny of Legionellaceae based on small-subunit ribosomal DNA sequences and proposal of Legionella lytica comb. nov. for Legionella-like amoebal pathogens.</article-title>
        <year>1996</year>
        <volume>46</volume>
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        <source id="116">International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology</source>
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            <surname>Brown</surname>
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            <surname>Vickers</surname>
            <given-names>R.M.</given-names>
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        <article-title>Tatlockia and Fluoribacter: Two new genera of organisms resembling Legionella pneumophila.</article-title>
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