title: Patoc 1 and Rufino strains of Leptospira biflexa, as screening antigens in the diagnosis of leptospirosis.
abstract: Patoc 1 and Rufino from L. complexo bifexa strains employed as screening antigen in the serologic diagnosis of liptospirosis in human and in six different animal species in comparison with a battery of 1.9 L complexo interrogans antigens, Patoc strain showed a 98.8% accordance in the sera agglutination tests, in humans; in animal it showed a low percentage of accordance in the sera agglutination tests in humans and in animals.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial; D006386:Hemagglutination Tests; D006801:Humans; D007919:Leptospira / Q000276:immunology*; D007922:Leptospirosis / Q000175:diagnosis*
chemical_list: D000942:Antigens, Bacterial