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Leptospira (from
Ancient Gr**** λεπτός (leptós) 'fine, thin, narrow, etc.' and
Latin spira 'coil') is a
genus of
spirochaete bacteria,
including a small...
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Leptospirosis is a
blood infection caused by the
bacterium Leptospira that can
infect humans, dogs,
rodents and many
other wild and
domesticated animals...
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Leptospira interrogans is a
species of
obligate aerobic spirochaete bacteria shaped like a cork**** with
hooked and
spiral ends. L.
interrogans is mainly...
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Leptospira biflexa is a
spirochaete bacterium in the
genus Leptospira and was the
first saprophytic Leptospira genome to be sequenced.
Leptospira biflexa...
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Leptospira broomii is a
species of
Leptospira isolated from
humans with leptospirosis. The type
strain is 5399T (=ATCC BAA-1107T =KIT 5399T). Levett,...
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Leptospira borgpetersenii is a
pathogenic species of
Leptospira. Yasuda, P. H.; Steigerwalt, A. G.; Sulzer, K. R.; Kaufmann, A. F.; Rogers, F.; Brenner...
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Leptospira noguchii is a gram-negative,
pathogenic organism named for ****anese
bacteriologist Dr.
Hideyo Noguchi who
named the
genus Leptospira. L. noguchii...
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Leptospira weilii is a
pathogenic species of
Leptospira. Yasuda, P. H.; Steigerwalt, A. G.; Sulzer, K. R.; Kaufmann, A. F.; Rogers, F.; Brenner, D. J...
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Leptospira wolffii is a gram
negative aerobic bacterium in the
spirochaete phylum. The
species named after Dutch bacteriologist Jan
Willem Wolff. As with...
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Leptospira alexanderi is a
species of
Leptospira. Its type
strain is
strain L 60T (= ATCC 700520T). Brenner, D. J.; Kaufmann, A. F.; Sulzer, K. R.; Steigerwalt...
