Author: Miladin Kostovic

# naam

- `Genus:............ Leptospira`
- `Species:.......... interrogans`
- `Serogroup:........ Icterohaemorrhagiae`
- `Serovar:.......... naam`
- `Strain:........... Naam`
- `Year:............. 1940`
- `Origin:........... Human`
- `Country:.......... Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia`

### History of serovar:

The strain Naam was isolated by Wolf in 1936, from a fatal case of leptospirosis in a labourer in Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia (Walch-Sorgdrager et al., 1940).

The strain was later studied serologically and appears in Wolff and Broom's list (1954) as a separate serovar named naam. The separate serological status of the strain was confirmed by factor analysis (Kmety, 1967).

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