Author: Miladin Kostovic

# gurungi

- `Genus:............ Leptospira`
- `Species:.......... interrogans`
- `Serogroup:........ Djasiman`
- `Serovar:.......... gurungi`
- `Strain:........... Gurung`
- `Year:............. 1957`
- `Origin:........... Human`
- `Country:.......... Malaysia`

### History of serovar:

The strain was isolated during 1953-9155 from the blood of a patient in Malaysia and dscribed by Alexander et al. (1957) as a new serovar gurungi, reference strain Guring. In the WHO list of 1967 the serovar was placed in the Autumnalis group. When Dikken and Kmety (1978) restablished the serogroup Djasiman, they placed the serovar within that serogroup. The TSC (1986) accepted this proposal.

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