A unique strain of Leptospira isolated from a patient with pulmonary haemorrhages in the Andaman Islands: A proposal of serovar portblairi of serogroup Sehgali

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 663-673

  Vijayachari, P ^a   Hartskeerl, R A ^b   Sharma, S ^a   Natarajaseenivasan, K ^a   Roy, S ^a   Terpstra, W J ^b   Sehgal, S C ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

8 HYDROXYGUANINE; BACTERIAL DNA; GENE PRODUCT; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; CASE REPORT; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENUS; GROWTH INHIBITION; HEADACHE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; INDIA; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MICROMORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PAIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RABBIT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEROTYPING;

ADULT; AGGLUTINATION TESTS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INDIA; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABBITS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEROTYPING;

EID: 4143151938     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268804002328     Document Type: Article

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