Author: Miladin Kostovic

# panama

- `Genus:............ Leptospira`
- `Species:.......... noguchii`
- `Serogroup:........ Panama`
- `Serovar:.......... panama`
- `Strain:........... CZ 214`
- `Year:............. 1966`
- `Origin:........... Opossum (Didelphis marsupialis)`
- `Country:.......... Panama`

### History of serovar:

The strain was isolated in 1962 from the kidney of an opossum (idelphis marsupialis) trapped in the Panama Canal Zone and described by Gale et al. (1966) as a new serovar named panama, reference strain CZ 214 of an undetermined serogroup.

In the WHO list of 1967 the serovar appears as a member of a separate serogroup named Panama.

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