spirochete

1. Parasitic or free-living bacteria;
   Many pathogenic to humans and other animals (synset 101384674)
   is a type of: eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria - a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella
   subtypes:

   • treponema - spirochete that causes disease in humans (e.g. syphilis and yaws)
   • borrelia - cause of e.g. European and African relapsing fever
   • borrelia burgdorferi, lime disease spirochete - cause of Lyme disease; transmitted primarily by ticks of genus Ixodes
   • leptospira - important pathogens causing Weil's disease or canicola fever
   belongs to: order spirochaetales, spirochaetales - higher bacteria; slender spiral rodlike forms
   same as: spirochaete

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