The panorama of animal leptospirosis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, regarding the seroepidemiology of the infection in tropical regions

Table 1 Twenty-four Leptospira strains used in microscopic agglutination test (MAT) for serological diagnosis of various animal species in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Species	Serovar	Serogroup	Reference strain
L. borgpetersenii	Ballum	Ballum	Mus 127
L. borgpetersenii	Castellonis	Ballum	Castellon 3
L. borgpetersenii	Javanica	Javanica	Veldrat Batavia 46
L. borgpetersenii	Mini	Mini	Sari
L. borgpetersenii	Tarassovi	Tarassovi	Perepelicin
L. borgpetersenii	Whitcombi	Celledoni	Whitcomb
L. interrogans	Australis	Australis	Ballico
L. interrogans	Autumnalis	Autumnalis	Akiyami A
L. interrogans	Bataviae	Bataviae	Van Tienen
L. interrogans	Bratislava	Australis	Jez Bratislava
L. interrogans	Canicola	Canicola	Hond Utrecht IV
L. interrogans	Copenhageni	Icterohaemorrhagiae	M 20
L. interrogans	Hardjo	Sejroe	Hardjoprajitno
L. interrogans	Hebdomadis	Hebdomadis	Hebdomadis
L. interrogans	Icterohaemorrhagiae	Icterohaemorrhagiae	RGA
L. interrogans	Pomona	Pomona	Pomona
L. interrogans	Pyrogenes	Pyrogenes	Salinem
L. interrogans	Wolffi	Sejroe	3705
L. kirschneri	Butembo	Autumnalis	Butembo
L. kirschneri	Cynopteri	Cynopteri	3522 C
L. kirschneri	Grippotyphosa	Grippotyphosa	Moskva V
L. noguchii	Panama	Panama	CZ 214 K
L. santarosai	Guaricurus	Sejroe	Bov. G
L. santarosai	Shermani	Shermani	1342 K

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