Author: Miladin Kostovic

# srebarna

- `Genus:............ Leptospira`
- `Species:.......... borgpetersenii`
- `Serogroup:........ Autumnalis`
- `Serovar:.......... srebarna`
- `Strain:........... 1409/69`
- `Year:............. 1974`
- `Origin:........... Shrew mouse (Sorex araneus)`
- `Country:.......... Bulgaria`

### History of serovar:

The strain was isolated from a shrew mouse (Sorex araneus) during 1969 in the game reserve Srebarna, Silistra district of Bulgaria (Mateev et al., 1971).

The strain was studied and described as a new serovar by Manev (1974) named srebarna with reference strain 1409/69.

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