Author: Miladin Kostovic

# cristobali

- `Genus:............ Leptospira`
- `Species:.......... noguchii`
- `Serogroup:........ Panama`
- `Serovar:.......... cristobali`
- `Strain:........... 1996 K`
- `Year:............. 1982`
- `Origin:........... Opossum (Didelphis marsupialis)`
- `Country:.......... Panama`

### History of serovar:

The strain was isolatged about 1965 from the kidney of an opossum (Didelphis marsupialis) in the Panama Canal Zone by Gale and was typed by Galton (WHO, 1967). In the serovar list of 1967 (WHO, 1967) the srain appears only in Annex 2 with reference strain designatin LT 940. The isolation and description of the strain was not published until 1982 (Sulzer et al., 1982). In this publication the designtion of the strain is given as 1996 K, which takes priority as the first published strain designation over the previous laboratory code LT 940.

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