Within the human host, Legionella pneumophila replicates within alveolar macrophages, leading to pneumonia. However, L. pneumophila is an aquatic generalist pathogen that replicates within a wide variety of protist hosts, including amoebozoa, percolozoa, and ciliophora.
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