| Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus | Species/Subspecies |
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| Species/Subspecies: | Leptospira kirschneri | ||||||||||
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| Etymology: | Genus name: thin helix (coil). Species epithet: named after L. Kirschner, | ||||||||||
| Significance: | Leptospirosis is said to be the most wide spread zoonotic infection in Nature. [Very important] |
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| Type Strain: | Serovar Cynopteri, strain 3522C = ATCC 49945. | ||||||||||
| Macromorphology (smell): | |||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||
| Hosts: | Humans etc. | ||||||||||
| Disease (Swedish): | Leptospiros, som är en zoonos. | ||||||||||
| Disease (English): | Leptospirosis, which is a zoonosis. | ||||||||||
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| 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(s): | The Leptospirosis Information Center |
