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Abstract

Legionellosis was diagnosed in an immunocompromised 3-year-old girl in Canada. We traced the source of the bacterium through co-culture with an ameba collected from a hot tub in her home. We identified Legionella pneumophila serogroup 6, sequence type 185, and used whole-genome sequencing to confirm the environmental and clinical isolates were of common origin.

Keywords: Legionellosis, case report, Legionnaires’ disease, hot tub, Legionella pneumophila, coculture, ameba, bacteria, Canada

Legionella pneumophila is a waterborne bacterium responsible for Legionnaires’ disease, a potentially fatal respiratory disease acquired through environmental exposure to aerosolized water. According to the World Health Organization, L. pneumophila is the most common cause of legionellosis worldwide (1). For unknown reasons, cases reported in the United States and Europe have risen sharply over the past decade (2,3). Most legionellosis cases identified are caused by L. pneumophila serogroup 1 (4), possibly because of extensive use of initial urinary antibody screening that focuses on serogroup 1.

Free-living amebae are known natural environmental reservoirs for L. pneumophila (5). Amebae particularly play a role in legionellae growth in warm and stagnant engineered environments at 35°–45°C and in the bacterium’s persistence in high temperatures, biocides, and pH extremes (6). Co-culture with amebae is an efficient tool to detect L. pneumophila from human and environmental samples (7). However, amebae are rarely used in environmental investigations.

The Study

In December 2016, an immunocompromised 3-year-old girl was admitted to Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, with acute respiratory distress syndrome and septic shock requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. She was transferred to a pediatric intensive care unit in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, where examination of the lungs confirmed pneumonia in the left

Amoeba Jr.

Biography[]

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Amoeba Jr.: 2004 - 2006[]

The Amoeba Boys were created in the summer of 2004 in the same lab accident that gave rise to the Powerpuff Girls and led to the criminal career of Mojo Jojo. It was Mojo Jojo who first took notice of the potential for the residue left behind after the explosion that created Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup. Mojo Jojo had returned to the lab to investigate the aftermath of the explosion that he had originally fled from. He noticed that the mess left behind was attempting to assemble in a vaguely sapient form but lacked stability and would collapse into ooze shortly after forming. Mojo Jojo collected the slime and took it to his makeshift lab.

Mojo Jojo was able to combine additional chemicals into the slime to give them enhanced stability, along while retaining their malleable nature. At first, the slimes were little more than mindless blobs of sentient slime. They were named Buck, Slim, and Junior. However, with their ability to absorb information from organic and digital sources, they gained intelligence and the ability to maintain a mostly sapient form. In particular, they became rather fond of old gangster movies and while robbing a high-end haberdashery they had the means to accessorize their look.

After their first run-in with the Powerpuff Girls, the Amoeba Boys were defeated and their remains were scattered across Townsville. They spent most of their time over the next two years trying to survi