A spirochaete (/ˈspaɪroʊˌkiːt/) or spirochete is a member of the phylum Spirochaetota (also called Spirochaetes /ˌspaɪroʊˈkiːtiːz/), which contains distinctive...

Treponema Treponema pallidum spirochaetes Scientific classification Domain: Bacteria Phylum: Spirochaetota Class: Spirochaetia Order: Spirochaetales Family:...

after the initial exposure to Treponema pallidum, the gram-negative spirochaete bacterium causing syphilis, but can range from 10 to 90 days. Without...

preferred mammalian hosts of adult I. scapularis, cannot transmit Borrelia spirochaetes to ticks. Ticks acquire Lyme disease microbes by feeding on infected...

(leptós) 'fine, thin, narrow, etc.', and Latin spira 'coil') is a genus of spirochaete bacteria, including a small number of pathogenic and saprophytic species...

described as gummatous. In syphilis, the gumma is caused by a reaction to spirochaete bacteria in the tissue. It appears to be the human body's way to slow...

pallidum, formerly known as Spirochaeta pallida, is a microaerophilic spirochaete bacterium with subspecies that cause the diseases syphilis, bejel (also...

notable groups of gram-negative bacteria include the cyanobacteria, spirochaetes, green sulfur, and green non-sulfur bacteria.[citation needed] Medically-relevant...

with two types of bacteria called fusiform (Fusobacterium spp.) and spirochaetes (Borrelia spp. and Spirillum spp.). This symbiosis of bacteria is sometimes...

others can be spiral-shaped, called spirilla, or tightly coiled, called spirochaetes[broken anchor]. A small number of other unusual shapes have been described...

available in the literature. An investigation for infection with the spirochaete Leptospira interrogans did not find any infected animals, suggesting...

condition, often an autoimmune disease. Beck, A. (1939). "The role of the spirochaete in the Wassermann reaction". Journal of Hygiene. 39 (3): 298–310. doi:10...

of material from the lesions (dark-field microscopy). The responsible spirochaete is readily identifiable on sight in a microscope as a treponema. Bejel...

and behave as the primary hosts of many different pathogens such as spirochaetes. Ticks carry various debilitating diseases therefore, ticks may assist...

the natural cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, the Lyme disease spirochaete". International Journal of Medical Microbiology. 296: 125–128. doi:10...

not transmit this strain of spirochaete. Despite this, there is a strong belief that some kind of Lyme-like spirochaete causes a Lyme-like disease in...

Borrelia recurrentis is a species of Borrelia, a spirochaete bacterium associated with relapsing fever. B. recurrentis is usually transmitted from person...

Margulis and colleagues have suggested that the cell also acquired a Spirochaete bacterium as a symbiont, providing the cell skeleton of microtubules...

by infection with one or more pathogenic European genospecies of the spirochaete B. burgdorferi sensu lato, mainly transmitted by the tick Ixodes ricinus...

eliminated when Hideyo Noguchi and J. W. Moore demonstrated the syphilitic spirochaetes in the brains of paretics. In 1917 Julius Wagner-Jauregg discovered that...

also bacteria, not spirochaetes but oval, pill-shaped bacteria. There is a one-to-one relationship between a bracket, a spirochaete, and a basal bacterium...

turicatae is a bacterial species of the spirochaete class of the genus Borrelia. It is one of the relapsing fever spirochaetes, which are globally distributed...

Dogs can be infected with Lyme disease (borreliosis), caused by the spirochaete bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi, B. afzelii, and B. garinii. Cattle can...

periodontitis which can induce bone loss. This motile bacillus is a spirochaete. It was previously known as Borrelia vincentii (Blanchard, 1906). "Treponema...

aims to use bacteriophages as way of identifying virulence factors in spirochaetes that lead to Lyme Disease.[citation needed] Genetically diverse B. burgdorferi...

the natural cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, the Lyme disease spirochaete". International Journal of Medical Microbiology. 296: 125–128. doi:10...

poliomyelitis and trachoma. He believed that yellow fever was caused by spirochaete bacteria instead of a virus. He worked for much of the next ten years...

latter is also characterised by spirochaete epibiotic symbionts. In other termite species, members of the spirochaete genus Treponema have been identified...

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experimental animals. In 1905, Fritz Schaudinn and Erich Hoffmann identified a spirochaete bacterium (Treponema pallidum) as the causative organism of syphilis...