Challenges in determining the pathogenicity status of Leptospira isolates with phenotypic methods: The need for a polyvalent approach
Georgies F. Mgode1*, Robert S. Machang’u2, Margarida Collares-Pereira3,
Maria Luisa Vieira3, Marga G. A. Goris4, Mirjam Engelbert4 and Rudy A. Hartskeerl4
1Immunology Department, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Chariteplatz 1, Campus Charite Mitte,D-10117 Berlin, Germany.
2Sokoine University of Agriculture, Pest Management Centre, P. O. Box 3110, Morogoro, Tanzania.
3Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Unidade de Leptospirose e Borreliose de Lyme, and Centro de Recursos Microbiológicos, FCT/UNL, Rua da Junqueira, 100, 1349-008 Lisboa, Portugal.
4Royal Tropical Institute, Department of Biomedical Research, Meibergdreef 39, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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