Perameles

Perameles Bandicoot 343 1964

The strain was isolated in 1958 from a bandicoot (Perameles nasuta) in North Queensland, Australia, by Emanuel. It was studied by Wolff and Bohlander (1964), who described it as anew serovar named paramelis of the Hebdomadis serogroup. This name was later corrected to perameles (WHO, 1967). The strain was submitted to factor analysis by Kmety (1977), who confirmed its serovar status and suggested placing it in the proposed new Mini serogroup.
During the TSC Boston meeting of 1982 this proposal was accepted.
While the strain was classified as L. meyeri in Brenner et al., 1999, a switch of strains became apparent later on and the serovar and strain were reclassified as belonging to L. interrogans.

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Wolff J.W., Bohlander H.J.: Two new serotypes belonging to the group of Leptospira Hebdomadis.
Trop. geogr. Med. 16, 2, 1964, 88-91

WHO: Current Problems in Leptospirosis Research.
Wld. Hlth. Org. Tech. Rep. Ser. No. 380, Geneva 1967, p.32

Kmety E.: Studium antigennej structury leptospir. Klasifikacia serologickej skupiny Hebdomadis.
Folia Fac. Med. Univ. Comenianae Bratisl. XV., 2, 1977, 245-309

TSC meeting, 1982, Boston: Minutes. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 34, 1984, 258-259

Brenner et al., Further determination of DNA relatedness between serogroups and serovars in the family Leptospiraceae with a proposal for Leptospira alexanderi sp. nov. and four new Leptospiroa genomospecies. Int J Sys Bacteriol 1999, 49, 839-858

Slack AT, Galloway RL, Symonds ML, Dohnt, Smythe LD. 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. Int J Sys Evol Microbiol 2009, 59, 1199-1203.

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