| NOUN | animal | spirochete, spirochaete | parasitic or free-living bacteria |
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| Meaning | Parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animals. | |
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| Synonym | spirochaete | |
| Member of | Spirochaetales, order Spirochaetales | Higher bacteria |
| Narrower | Borrelia burgdorferi, Lime disease spirochete | Cause of Lyme disease |
| 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 |
| Spanish | espiroqueta | |
| Catalan | espiroqueta | |
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