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Recent leptospira isolates from Tamil Nadu

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Title Recent leptospira isolates from Tamil Nadu
 
Creator NATARAJASEENIVASAN, K
RATNAM, S
 
Subject Autunmalis, Canicola, Javunica, Leplospira isolates
 
Description Twelve leptospira isolutes were successfully isohlted from various sources like, dead whlte albino mice (Mus mculus).dead Wistar rats (strain of Rattus norvegicus) field und house rats, sheep and ailing human urine samples All the isolateswere identified at serovar level by monoclonal antihody methods with the help of refcrence laboratory, Amslerdam.Isolates from mice (1/45), wistar rats (ill 3), house. rat (1/1), sheep (1/18) ,md field rats (1/32) were typed as SerovauJavanica of the serogroup Javanica and the 2 human isolates (2/4) were identified as serovar autuminahs and canucola  respectively. By animal pathogenicity study for the above isolates it was found that the house rat isolate and the humanisolales Were,' virulent in nature and they killed the inoculated guineapigs, while the mice isolate was huving moderatevirulence. None of the isolates from wistar rats, sheep and field rats were virulent.
 
Publisher Directorate of Knowledge Management in Agriculture
 
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Date 2013-12-31
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAnS/article/view/36028
 
Source The Indian Journal of Animal Sciences; Vol 70, No 6 (2000)
0367-8318
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAnS/article/view/36028/15981
 
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