Author: Miladin Kostovic

# kuwait

- `Genus:............ Leptospira`
- `Species:.......... interrogans`
- `Serogroup:........ Canicola`
- `Serovar:.......... kuwait`
- `Strain:........... 136/2/2`
- `Year:............. 1983`
- `Origin:........... Rattus norvegicus`
- `Country:.......... Netherlands`

### History of serovar:

The strain was isolated 1979 from the kidneyss of a brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) trapped near Kuwait City by Bezjak (1983), and described by Terpstra (1983) as a separate serovar named kuwait, ref. strain 136/2/2.

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