Author: Miladin Kostovic

# broomi

- `Genus:............ Leptospira`
- `Species:.......... interrogans`
- `Serogroup:........ Canicola`
- `Serovar:.......... broomi`
- `Strain:........... Patane`
- `Year:............. 1960`
- `Origin:........... Human`
- `Country:.......... Australia`

### History of serovar:

The strain was isolated from a patient in Australia in 1954 and later studied and described as a new serovar named broomi, ref. strain Patane (Addamiano et al., 1960). It appears in the list of 1965 (WHO, 1965) as a recognized serovar.

The strain was submitted to factor analysis and it was suggested that it should be placed in the sugroup Canicola (Kmety, 1967).

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