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A new serovar mogdeni of serogroup Tarassovi of Leptospira interrogans isolated from a sewage plant in England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

J. D. Coghlan  and
E. Kmety
J. D. Coghlan
Affiliation:
Formerly of the Leptospira Reference Laboratory, Public Health Laboratory Service, Colindale, London, UK
E. Kmety
Affiliation:
Institute of Epidemiology, Medical Faculty of the Komensky University, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
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Among 30 strains of leptospires isolated from samples of sewage taken before and during treatment at two sewage plants in England, only one appeared to belong to Leptospira interrogans, the species that comprises the leptospires that are pathogenic to man and animals. That strain, Compton 746, was isolated from settled sewage, before treatment at a treatment plant that deals mainly with human sewage. It was shown serologically to belong to serogroup Tarassovi and appears to represent a new serovar that has been named mogdeni after the name of the sewage plant, Mogden, from which it was isolated.

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Research Article
Information
Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 99 , Issue 2 , October 1987 , pp. 373 - 377
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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