Meaning | Parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animals. |
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Synonym | spirochete |
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Member of | Spirochaetales, order Spirochaetales | Higher bacteria |
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Narrower | Borrelia burgdorferi, Lime disease spirochete | Cause of Lyme disease |
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borrelia | Cause of e.g. European and African relapsing fever |
leptospira | Important pathogens causing Weil's disease or canicola fever |
treponema | spirochete that causes disease in humans (e.g. syphilis and yaws) |
Broader | eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria | A large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls |
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Spanish | espiroqueta |
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Catalan | espiroqueta |
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