Table 1.

Leptospirareference strains used for MALDI-TOF MS measurements and sequence analysis

genomospecies	serogroup	serovar	strain	pathogenicity
L. interrogans	Australis	Australis	Ballico a, b	pathogenic
L. interrogans	Australis	Bratislava	Jez Bratislava a, b	pathogenic
L. interrogans	Autumnalis	Autumnalis	Akiyami A a, b	pathogenic
L. interrogans	Bataviae	Bataviae	Swart a, b	pathogenic
L. interrogans	Canicola	Canicola	Hond Utrecht IV a, b	pathogenic
L. interrogans	Hebdomadis	Hebdomadis	Hebdomadis a, b	pathogenic
L. interrogans	Icterohaemorrhagiae	Copenhageni	M 20 a, b	pathogenic
L. interrogans	Icterohaemorrhagiae	Icterohaemorrhagiae	Ictero I b	pathogenic
L. interrogans	Pomona	Pomona	Pomona a,b	pathogenic
L. interrogans	Pyrogenes	Pyrogenes	Salinem a,b	pathogenic
L. interrogans	Sejroe	Hardjo	Hardjoprajitno a,b	pathogenic
L. kirschneri	Grippotyphosa	Grippotyphosa	Moskva V a.b	pathogenic
L. borgpetersenii	Sejroe	Saxkoebing	Mus 24 a, b	pathogenic
L. borgpetersenii	Ballum	Ballum	Mus 127 a, b	pathogenic
L. borgpetersenii	Sejroe	Sejroe	M 84 a, b	pathogenic
L. borgpetersenii	Tarassovi	Tarassovi	Perepelitsin a, b	pathogenic
L. borgpetersenii	Javanica	Javanica	Veldrat Bataviae 46 b	pathogenic
L. alexanderi	not defined	Manhao 3	L60c	pathogenic
L. weilii	not defined	Celledoni	Celledoni c	pathogenic
L. santarosai	not defined	Shermani	LT 821 c	pathogenic
L. noguchii	not defined	Panama	CZ 214 c	pathogenic
L. broomii	not defined	Not defined	5399 c	intermediate
L. fainei	not defined	Hurstbridge	BUT 6 c	intermediate
L. inadai	not defined	Lyme	10 c	intermediate
L. biflexa	Semaranga	Patoc	PatocI c	non-pathogenic
L. meyeri	not defined	Semaranga	Veldrat S173 c	non-pathogenic
Turneriella parva	not defined	Parva	H c	non-pathogenic
Leptonema illini	not defined	Illini	3055 c	non-pathogenic

^a Acquired by purchase at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) Head of Unit. Diagnostics, Genetics and Pathogen Characterisation, Department Biological Safety Berlin, Germany.

^b Acquired by purchase at the WHO/FAO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Leptospirosis, Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

^c Acquired by purchase at the DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany.