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Domestic pig

Animal common names
Domestic pig
Family
Mammalia
Animal genus and species
Sus scrofa domesticus
Serovar
Hurstbridge
Serogroup
Hurstbridge
Species
L.fainei
Presumptive species
L.fainei


Country names
Australia
Other location data
Victoria and New South Wales
Year
1994


Specimen type
Genitals, Kidney
Detection method
Culture
Determining method
Arbitrarily primed PCR (AP-PCR), DNA-DNA hybridisation, Mapped restriction site polymorphisms, Pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), Sequencing and phylogeny based on a single gene, Cross agglutination
Gene
rrs, 16S


Number of animals with id isolates
5
Animal age class
Not stated
Animal health
Not stated

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Citation

Perolat P, Chappel RJ, Adler B, Baranton G, Bulach DM, Billinghurst ML, Letocart M, Merien F, Serrano MS, 1998. Leptospira fainei sp. nov., isolated from pigs in Australia. Int J Syst Bacteriol 48: 851-858.