Reclassification of Leptospira meyeri serovar Perameles to Leptospira interrogans serovar Perameles through serological and molecular analysis: Evidence of a need for changes to current procedures in Leptospira taxonomy

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1199-1203

  Slack, Andrew T ^a   Galloway, Renee L ^b   Symonds, Meegan L ^a   Dohnt, Michael F ^a   Smythe, Lee D ^a  

^a WHO COLLABORATING CENTRE FOR REFERENCE AND RESEARCH ON INFLUENZA   (Australia)

^b Centers for Disease Control and Prevention   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPERIMMUNE GLOBULIN; RNA 16S; BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC SIMILARITY; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIRA MEYERI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROLOGY; SEROTYPE; TAXONOMIC RANK; UNITED STATES; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEPTOSPIROSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEROTYPING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIRA MEYERI; LEPTOSPIRA MEYERI SEROVAR HARDJO; PERAMELES;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 67649795461     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.000992-0     Document Type: Article

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