Author: Miladin Kostovic

# kobbe

- `Genus:............ Leptospira`
- `Species:.......... santarosai`
- `Serogroup:........ Bataviae`
- `Serovar:.......... kobbe`
- `Strain:........... CZ 320`
- `Year:............. 1966`
- `Origin:........... Spiny rat (Proechimys semispinosus)`
- `Country:.......... Panama`

### History of serovar:

The strain was isolated from a spiny rat (Proechimys semispinosus) in the Panama Canal Zone in 1962 and described as a new serovar of the Bataviae group by Gale et al. (1966). The new serovar appeared for the first time in the list of 1967 (WHO, 1967), with the strain designation CZ 320 K, which has since been corrected to the original CZ 320.

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