Alice

Alice Alice

The strain was isolated in 1966 from a man in Sri Lanka and is mentioned by Chernukha in the Fifth Int.Exch.in Leptospirosis (WHO, 1968) as a new serovar alice, ref. strain Alice. Nityananda and Harvey (1971) considered the strain to represent a new serovar. However conflicting typing results have been reported. It therefore was placed in the Revised List 1988 with ++. Because of the subsequent realisation that no documentation and valid description was given, the serovar is now placed in the Annex of the attached updated serovar list.
Footnotes
++ Strains which have given rise to controversial typing results but which were validly described.
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* Nityananda K., Harvey T.: Leptospirosis in Ceylon. Epidemiological and Laboratory Studies. Ceylon J. Med. Sci. 20, 1971, 5-14.
* Kmety E., Dikken H.: Revised List of Leptospira Serovars (accepted by the Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Leptospira). University Press Groningen, 1988, p. 16.