Species/Subspecies: | Leptospira borgpetersenii | ||||||||
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Categories: | Zoonotic; motile; notifiable diseases and bacteria | ||||||||
Etymology: | Genus name: thin helix (coil). Species epithet: named after the Danish microbiologist C. Borg-Petersen. | ||||||||
Significance: | Leptospirosis is said to be the most wide spread zoonotic infection in Nature. [Important] |
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Taxonomy: | Class Spirochaetia Order Spirochaetales Family Leptospiraceae Genus Leptospira |
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Type Strain: | Veldrat Bataviae 46 = ATCC 43292. | ||||||||
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Micromorphology:
| "Sewing thread thin" (0.1 x 6-12 µm), helical and with a hook on each end. Motile and has two periplasmatic flagella. | ||||||||
Gram +/Gram -: | G- | ||||||||
Metabolism: | Aerobic | ||||||||
Catalase/Oxidase: | +/+ | ||||||||
Fermentation of carbohydrates: | Does not ferment karbohydrates. | ||||||||
Spec. Char.: | Generation time: 6-8 h. | ||||||||
Disease: | Leptospirosis, which is a zoonosis. |
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Hosts: | Humans etc. | ||||||||
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Genome Sequence: |
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Taxonomy/phylogeny:
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About 25 different species have been described within the genus Leptispira. L. borgpetersenii is closely related to L. santarosai and L. weilii. See the phylogenetic tree (Fig. 116:3). | ||||||||
Legislation: | Leptospirosis is notifyable in Sweden. | ||||||||
Comment: | There are different serovars and from a clinical point of view, the serovar is more important than the species as pathogenicity is associated with serovar, rather than species and different species may belong to the same serovar. | ||||||||
Reference(s): | No. 109 | ||||||||
Link: | The Leptospirosis Information Center | ||||||||
Updated: | 2021-12-02 |
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