This work was supported in part by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30770820, 30970125,81101264, and 81171587) and the National Key Program for Infectious Diseases of China (2009ZX10004-712).
In China, Leptospira interrogans serovar Lai strain 56601 (str.56601) is one of main pathogenic strains that cause severe leptospirosis in both human and animals. The genome of this organism was completely sequenced...