Author: Miladin Kostovic

# guidae

- `Genus:............ Leptospira`
- `Species:.......... borgpetersenii`
- `Serogroup:........ Tarassovi`
- `Serovar:.......... guidae`
- `Strain:........... RP 29`
- `Year:............. 1960`
- `Origin:........... Pig`
- `Country:.......... Brasil`

### History of serovar:

The strain was isolated in 1948 from a pig in rasil by Guida (1948), who also did some serological typing (Guida, 1952). However, Wolff and Bohlander (1960) described the strain as a new 'subserovar' of L. tarassovi, named guidae, ref. strin RP 29. The strain is first mentioned in the list of 1965 (WHO, 1965) as a separate serovar.

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