treponema , auch: treponeme

Pinta is classified as a treponematosis, which is an infectious disease caused by a treponema.

Sometimes, tonsillitis is caused by an infection of spirochaeta and treponema, in this case called Vincent's angina or Plaut-Vincent angina.

The organism that causes bejel belongs to the same family as the bacterium that causes syphilis, pinta and yaws and is known as treponema.

This "Reiter strain" of treponema enabled drug companies to later develop the "Reiter Complement Fixation Test" for syphilis.

This error probably was influenced by his discovery of the spirochaete cause of leptospirosis and a nonpathogenic strain of treponema related to T. pallidum (the cause of syphilis).