Spirochaetes Flashcards

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general morphology and description of Spirochaetes

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✔ extremely narrow
✔ elongated
✔ cylindrical in shape
✔ spiral with tight coils and tapered ends
✔ actively motile; exhibit rotational movement
✔ possess internal flagella [also referred to as endoflagella, periplasmic flagella, axial fibrils, axial filaments]
✔ gram-negative

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Genera of Spirochaetes associated with human infection

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(1) Treponema
(2) Borrelia
(3) Leptospira

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