Lanka

Lanka R 740 1971

The strain was isolated in 1967 from a patient in Ceylon and described as a new serovar of the Autumnalis group named lanka, reference strain R 740 (Nityananda, Sulzer, 1971). Serovar lanka was recognized by the TSC in 1986 and was placed according to the suggestion of Dikken and Kmety (1978) within the new Louisiana serogroup. It appears as such in the Revised List of 1988 (Kmety & Dikken, 1988).
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* Nityananda K., Sulzer C.R. A new serotype of Leptospira belonging to the Autumnalis serogroup. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 74, 1971, 184-186.
* Dikken H., Kmety E: Serological Typing Methods of Leptospires. Methods in Microbiol. vol. 11, 1978, 260-295.
* TSC meeting, 1986, Manchester: Minutes. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 37, 1987, 472-473.
* Kmety E., Dikken H. Revised List of Leptospira Serovars (accepted by the Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Leptospira). University Press Groningen, 1988, p. 16.

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