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Sir, — The leptospiral serovars that have been cultured in New Zealand are pomona, copenhageni, ballum and hardjo. (Anon., Citation1951; Kirschner and Gray, Citation1951; Anon., Citation1967a; Lake, Citation1973, respectively.) Serological evidence of serovar tarassovi has been published (Russell and Hansen, Citation1958) but it is believed that until now no members of this serogroup have been isolated in New Zealand.