Author: Miladin Kostovic

# brasiliensis

- `Genus:............ Leptospira`
- `Species:.......... santarosai`
- `Serogroup:........ Bataviae`
- `Serovar:.......... brasiliensis`
- `Strain:........... An 776`
- `Year:............. 1972`
- `Origin:........... Opossum (Didelphis marsupialis)`
- `Country:.......... Brasil`

### History of serovar:

The strain was isolated in 1961 from an opossum (Didelphis marsupialis) in Brazil and described as a new serovar named brasiliensis, ref. strain An 776 (Santa Rosa et al., 1972). The strain had already been studied by Galton under the laboratory code LT 966, which was the strain designation given in the list of 1967 (WHO, 1967). This has now been corrected to the original An 776.

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