New Genetic Variants of spp Characterized by MLST from Peruvian Isolates.

Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease caused by the genus presenting complex and dynamic epidemiology. To determine the genetic variability and its phylogenetic relationship of spp isolates from three sources in Iquitos (Peruvian Amazon) from 2002 to 2013, seven MLST genes were analyzed to obtain the (ST) and these sequences were concatenated for phylogenetic analysis. The genetic relationship between STs was determined with the goeBURST algorithm and genetic diversity was determined using DnaSP.