HyperDic: genus_leptospira

English > 1 sense of the expression genus Leptospira:
NOUNanimalgenus Leptospiravery slender aerobic spirochetes
English > genus Leptospira: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
MeaningVery slender aerobic spirochetes; free-living or parasitic in mammals.
Member ofTreponemataceae, family Treponemataceaesmall spirochetes some parasitic or pathogenic
MembersleptospiraImportant pathogens causing Weil's disease or canicola fever
Broaderbacteria genusA genus of bacteria
Spanishgenus leptospira
Catalangenus leptospira

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