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Answer for the clue "Important pathogens causing Weil's disease or canicola fever ", 10 letters:
leptospira

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n. important pathogens causing Weil's disease or canicola fever

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Leptospira ( Greek leptos , "fine, thin" and Latin spira , "coil") is a genus of spirochaete bacteria, including a small number of pathogenic and saprophytic species. Leptospira was first observed in 1907 in kidney tissue slices of a leptospirosis victim ...