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A New Leptospiral Serovar in the Icterohaemorrhagiae Serogroup Isolated from an Ox in Zimbabwe

¹Department of Biological Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, Box MP 167, Mount Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe
²Leptospirosis and Mycobacteriosis Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa 50010
³N.H. Swellengrebel Laboratory of Tropical Hygiene, The Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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ABSTRACT

A strain of Leptospira interrogans that was isolated from an ox slaughtered in Zimbabwe and belonged to serogroup Icterohaemorrhagiae could not be identified when we compared it with 18 reference strains belonging to this serogroup by using cross-agglutinin absorption, monoclonal antibody, and restriction endonuclease DNA analyses. The name zimbabwe is proposed for the new serovar containing this strain; the type strain of this serovar is strain SBF 23.