spirochaetes

The presence of the spirochaetes in grey-pink diarrhoea is diagnostic.

'You could look for spirochaetes,' I said, and his eyes widened abruptly before he disappeared back into the bushes.

It is caused by spirochaetes of the genus Leptospira.

Spirochaeta is a genus of bacteria classified within the phylum Spirochaetes.

Most spirochaetes are free-living and anaerobic, but there are numerous exceptions.

Spirochaetes in the orange-black layer are chemoheterotrophic and use iron as an electron donor.

Spirochaetes (or Spirochetes) belong to a phylum of double-membrane bacteria.

Brachyspiraceae is a family of spirochaetes.

The resulting fever would kill the syphilis spirochaetes, and quinine could be administered to control the malaria.

The flagella of a unique group of bacteria, the spirochaetes, are found between two membranes in the periplasmic space.

Initially, antibiotics may cause a worsening of symptoms (the Herxheimer reaction), as spirochaetes are destroyed, which in part supports the diagnosis.

Spirochaetes are distinguished from other bacterial phyla by their flagella, which run lengthwise between the cell wall and outer membrane.

It has a much narrower gram negative spectrum of activity, but has been shown to be active against Campylobacter coli, and certain spirochaetes.

Cavalier-Smith has postulated that the Spirochaetes belong in a larger clade called Gracilicutes.

Salvarsan, the first partially organic antimicrobial drug in medical history, was effective against spirochaetes only and was primarily used to cure syphilis.

He studied a range of topics including dysentery, Spirochaetes, diphteria, spotted fever, Streptococci and Penicillin.

Early lesions may be colonized or infected by, Bacillus fusiformis (Vincent's organism), anaerobes and spirochaetes.

Other notable groups of Gram-negative bacteria include the cyanobacteria, spirochaetes, green sulfur and green non-sulfur bacteria.

The spirochaetes are divided into three families (Brachyspiraceae, Leptospiraceae, and Spirochaetaceae), all placed within a single order (Spirochaetales).

Some rod-shaped bacteria, called vibrio, are slightly curved or comma-shaped; others can be spiral-shaped, called spirilla, or tightly coiled, called spirochaetes.

It is not universally present in all bacteria, but has been found in Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, Spirochaetes, Thermotogae, Aquificae and one species of Archaea.

Spirochaetes of the genus Borrelia are a notable exception to this arrangement, with bacteria such as Borrelia burgdorferi, the cause of Lyme disease, containing a single linear chromosome.

With the support of his assistant Sahachiro Hata Ehrlich discovered in 1909 that Compound 606, Arsphenamine effectively combatted "spirillum" spirochaetes bacteria, one of whose subspecies causes syphilis.

In her 1981 work Symbiosis in Cell Evolution she argued that eukaryotic cells originated as communities of interacting entities, including endosymbiotic spirochaetes that developed into eukaryotic flagella and cilia.

In 1913 all doubt about the syphilitic nature of paresis was finally eliminated when Hideyo Noguchi and J. W. Moore demonstrated the syphilitic spirochaetes in the brains of paretics.