Human leptospirosis cases and the prevalence of rats harbouring Leptospira interrogans in urban areas of Tokyo, Japan, by N. Koizumi, M. Muto, T. Tanikawa, H. Mizutani, Y. Sohmura, E. Hayashi, N. Akao, M. Hoshino, H. Kawabata and H. Watanabe
Journal of Medical Microbiology vol. 58, part 9, pp. 1227 - 1230
Supplementary Table S1
Results of MAT, IgM detection and flaB PCR. [PDF file] (27 KB)
Supplementary Fig. S1
PFGE of NotI restriction fragments of Leptospira isolates of the rats and the reference strains of serovars Copenhageni (M20) and Icterohaemorrhagiae (RGA and Ictero no. 1). Lanes: 1, F-1; 2, F-3; 3, F-4; 4, F-6; 5, F-10; 6, F-16; 7, F-19; 8, F-20; 9, F-22; 10, F-24; 11, F-25; 12, F-28; 13 and 23, M20; 14 and 22, PGA; 15 and 24, Ictero no. 1; 16, H-2; 17, H-3; 18, H-4; 19, G-1; 20, K-6; 21, M-1; M, molecular mass marker (λ ladder; Bio-Rad Laboratories). Alphabets of each isolates correlate with those of each locations in Table 1. [PDF file] (409 KB)