- Animal common names
- Black rat
- Family
- Mammalia
- Animal genus and species
- Rattus rattus
- Serovar
- Javanica
- Serogroup
- Javanica
- Species
- L.borgpeterseni
- Presumptive species
- L.borgpeterseni
- Country names
- Japan
- Other location data
- Yoroshima Island
- Year
- 2003
- Specimen type
- Kidney
- Detection method
- Culture
- Determining method
- Micro-agglutination testing on isolate, Pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), Sequencing and phylogeny based on a single gene
- Gene
- 16S, gyrB, flaB
- Number of animals with id isolates
- 7
- Animal age class
- Not stated
- Animal health
- Not stated
Citation
Kawabata H, Sakakibara S, Imai Y, Masuzawa T, Fujita H, Tsurumi M, Sato F, Takano A, Nogami S, Kaneda K, Watanabe H, 2006. First record of Leptospira borgpetersenii isolation in the Amami Islands, Japan. Microbiology and Immunology 50: 429-434.
