Endemic Leptospirosis in Victoria

Presidential Address: Animal Reservoirs of Infection in Australia.

“…Johnson (1950) reviewed the leptospiroses of Australia, and listed five species: Leptospira ictero-haemorrhagiae , from Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria; L. australis A and L. australis B, from North Queensland ; and L. pomona and L. mitis , from Queensland and northern New South Wales. Since then, L. pomona has been recorded from Victoria by Wellington et al (1951), Graves et al (1951), and Lawrence (1952a, 1952b), while Sinnamon and Pask (1952) and Sinnamon et al (1953), in collaboration with the State Laboratory of Microbiology and Pathology, have added three species in North Queensland, namely, L. canicola, L. medanensis, and an undescribed species which passes under the temporary name "Celledoni. " Still more recently, L. australis B and L. medanensis have been split into subgroups, so that altogether eleven types of leptospirae are now known in this country.…”