Author: Miladin Kostovic

# kwale

- `Genus:............ Leptospira`
- `Species:.......... borgpetersenii`
- `Serogroup:........ Pyrogenes`
- `Serovar:.......... kwale`
- `Strain:........... Julu`
- `Year:............. 1979`
- `Origin:........... Human`
- `Country:.......... Kenya`

### History of serovar:

Strain Julu was isolated from ascholboy in the Coust Province of Keny in 1968 (de Geus, 1971). The isolate aappeared to be a member of the Pyrogenes roup (de Geus, 1977) and was described by Dikken et al.(1979) as a new serovar kwale, with reference strain Julu. Its serovar status has been confirmed by a Ref. Lab.

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