Panama

Panama CZ 214 1966

The strain was isolated in 1962 from the kidney of an opossum (Didelphis marsupialis) trapped in the Panama Canal Zone and described by Gale et al. (1966) as a new serovar named panama, reference strain CZ 214 of an undetermined serogroup.
In the WHO list of 1967 the serovar appears as a member of a separate serogroup named Panama.
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* Gale N.B., Alexander A.D., Evans L.B., Yager R.H., Metheney R.A. An outbreak of leptospirosis among U.S. army troops in the Canal Zone. R. Isolation and characterization of the isolates. Amer. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 15, no. 1, 1966, 64-70.
* WHO: Current Problems in Leptospirosis Research. Wld. Hlth. Org. Tech. Rep. Ser. No. 380, Geneva 1967, p.32.

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