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Definition of Spirochaetes

Spirochaete
Spirochaeta Spi`ro*ch[ae]"ta, Spirochaete Spi`ro*ch[ae]"te, n. [L. spira a coil + Gr. ??? hair.] (Biol.) A genus of Spirobacteria similar to Spirillum, but distinguished by its motility. One species, the Spiroch[ae]te Obermeyeri, is supposed to be the cause of relapsing fever.
Spirochaete
Relapsing Re*laps"ing, a. Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state. Relapsing fever (Med.), an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some other regions. It is marked by one or two remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains, and by the presence, during the paroxism of spiral bacterium (Spiroch[ae]te) in the blood. It is not usually fatal. Called also famine fever, and recurring fever.

Meaning of Spirochaetes from wikipedia

- cells. Spirochaetes are chemoheterotrophic in nature, with lengths between 3 and 500 μm and diameters around 0.09 to at least 3 μm. Spirochaetes are distinguished...
- Treponema Treponema pallidum spirochaetes Scientific classification Domain: Bacteria Phylum: Spirochaetota class: Spirochaetia Order: Spirochaetales Family:...
- with two types of bacteria called fusiform (Fusobacterium spp.) and spirochaetes (Borrelia spp. and Spirillum spp.). This symbiosis of bacteria is sometimes...
- after the initial exposure to Treponema pallidum, the gram-negative spirochaete bacterium causing syphilis, but can range from 10 to 90 days. Without...
- notable groups of gram-negative bacteria include the cyanobacteria, spirochaetes, green sulfur, and green non-sulfur bacteria.[citation needed] Medically-relevant...
- Sharp PM, Wolfe KH (1999). "Proteome composition and codon usage in spirochaetes: species-specific and DNA strand-specific mutational biases". Nucleic...
- preferred mammalian hosts of adult I. sca****ris, cannot transmit Borrelia spirochaetes to ticks. Ticks acquire Lyme disease microbes by feeding on infected...
- pallidum, formerly known as Spirochaeta pallida, is a microaerophilic spirochaete bacterium with subspecies that cause the diseases syphilis, bejel (also...
- 000 base pairs in the soil-dwelling bacterium Sorangium cellulosum. Spirochaetes of the genus Borrelia are a notable exception to this arrangement, with...
- periplasmic flagella inside the outer membrane. They comprise the phylum Spirochaetes. Owing to their morphological properties, spirochetes are difficult to...