{{Short description|Species of bacterium}} {{Speciesbox | image = | genus = Legionella | species = micdadei | authority = Hébert et al. 1980<ref name="Hébert1980"/> | type_strain = | synonyms = ''Tatlockia micdadei''<br> ''Legionella pittsburghensis'' }}
'''''Legionella micdadei''''' is a Gram-negative bacterium from the genus ''Legionella'', which stains acid-fast. It stains weakly, but loses this trait upon being grown in culture. ''Tatlockia micdadei'' is an alternative term for ''L. micdadei'', the Pittsburgh pneumonia agent and TATLOCK strain.<ref>McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.</ref> It is named after Joseph E. McDade, who first isolated ''L. pneumophila''.<ref name="Hébert1980" >{{Cite journal |last=Hébert |first=G. Ann |last2=Steigerwalt |first2=Arnold G. |last3=Brenner |first3=Don J. |date=1980-09-01 |title=Legionella micdadei species nova: Classification of a third species of ''Legionella'' associated with human pneumonia |journal=Current Microbiology |language=en |volume=3 |issue=5 |pages=255–257 |doi=10.1007/BF02601800 |issn=0343-8651}}</ref>
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Category:Legionellales
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