Author: Miladin Kostovic

# paidjan

- `Genus:............ Leptospira`
- `Species:.......... interrogans`
- `Serogroup:........ Bataviae`
- `Serovar:.......... paidjan`
- `Strain:........... Paidjan`
- `Year:............. 1953`
- `Origin:........... Human`
- `Country:.......... Indonesia`

### History of serovar:

The strain was isolated in 1939 in Sumatra, Indonesia, from a human case of leptospirosis and was considered to represent a new serovar of the Bataviae group (Wolf, 1953). The strain appeared for the first time in Wolff and Broom's list of 1954 as a separate serovar.

Back to Lepto homepage