{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,17]],"date-time":"2026-09-17T23:20:09Z","timestamp":1789687209281,"version":"4.0.1"},"reference-count":21,"publisher":"Microbiology Society","issue":"Pt_5","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":[],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2013,5,1]]},"abstract":"<jats:p>The genus <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" content-type=\"genus\" xlink:type=\"simple\">\n                     <jats:ext-link ext-link-type=\"uri\" xlink:href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1601\/nm.7893\" xlink:type=\"simple\">\n                        <jats:italic>Leptospira<\/jats:italic>\n                     <\/jats:ext-link>\n                  <\/jats:named-content> currently comprises 16 named species. In addition, four unnamed hybridization groups were designated <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" content-type=\"genus\" xlink:type=\"simple\">\n                     <jats:ext-link ext-link-type=\"uri\" xlink:href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1601\/nm.7893\" xlink:type=\"simple\">\n                        <jats:italic>Leptospira<\/jats:italic>\n                     <\/jats:ext-link>\n                  <\/jats:named-content> genomospecies 1, 3, 4 and 5. These groups represent valid species-level taxa, but were not assigned names in the original description by Brenner <jats:italic>et al.<\/jats:italic> [<jats:italic>Int J Syst Bacteriol<\/jats:italic> \n                  <jats:bold>49<\/jats:bold>, 839\u2013858 (1999)]. To rectify this situation, it is proposed that <jats:named-content xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" content-type=\"genus\" xlink:type=\"simple\">\n                     <jats:ext-link ext-link-type=\"uri\" xlink:href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1601\/nm.7893\" xlink:type=\"simple\">\n                        <jats:italic>Leptospira<\/jats:italic>\n                     <\/jats:ext-link>\n                  <\/jats:named-content> genomospecies 1, genomospecies 3, genomospecies 4 and genomospecies 5 should be classified as <jats:italic>Leptospira alstonii<\/jats:italic> sp. nov., <jats:italic>Leptospira vanthielii<\/jats:italic> sp. nov., <jats:italic>Leptospira terpstrae<\/jats:italic> sp. nov. and <jats:italic>Leptospira yanagawae<\/jats:italic> sp. nov., respectively, with strains <jats:italic>L. alstonii<\/jats:italic> 79601<jats:sup>T<\/jats:sup> (\u200a=\u200aATCC BAA-2439<jats:sup>T<\/jats:sup>), <jats:italic>L. vanthielii<\/jats:italic> WaZ Holland<jats:sup>T<\/jats:sup> (\u200a=\u200aATCC 700522<jats:sup>T<\/jats:sup>), <jats:italic>L. terpstrae<\/jats:italic> LT 11-33<jats:sup>T<\/jats:sup> (\u200a=\u200aATCC 700639<jats:sup>T<\/jats:sup>) and <jats:italic>L. yanagawae<\/jats:italic> Sao Paulo<jats:sup>T<\/jats:sup> (\u200a=\u200aATCC 700523<jats:sup>T<\/jats:sup>) as the type strains. The type strains are also available from the culture collections of the WHO Collaborating Centres in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Brisbane, Australia.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1099\/ijs.0.047324-0","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,9,15]],"date-time":"2012-09-15T10:28:04Z","timestamp":1347704884000},"page":"1859-1862","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":63,"title":["Classification of \n               \n                  Leptospira\n               \n             genomospecies 1, 3, 4 and 5 as Leptospira alstonii sp. nov., Leptospira vanthielii sp. nov., Leptospira terpstrae sp. nov. and Leptospira yanagawae sp. nov., respectively"],"prefix":"10.1099","volume":"63","author":[{"given":"L.","family":"Smythe","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"WHO\/FAO\/OIE Collaborating Centre for Reference & Research on Leptospirosis, Western Pacific Region, Health Support Services Agency, Queensland Health, Brisbane, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"B.","family":"Adler","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Structural and Functional Microbial Genomics, Monash University, Victoria, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"R. 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