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genus Treponema - type genus of Treponemataceae: anaerobic spirochetes with an undulating rigid body; parasitic in warm-blooded animals

bacteria genus - a genus of bacteria

family Treponemataceae, Treponemataceae - small spirochetes some parasitic or pathogenic

treponema - spirochete that causes disease in humans (e.g. syphilis and yaws)

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Spiral microorganisms, similar to spirochaetes, have been frequently detected in the rumen and are represented by the genus Treponema (Stewart et al., 1997).

Bacterial diversity in bovine rumen by metagenomic 16S rDNA sequencing and scanning electron microscopy/Diversidade bacteriana em rumen bovino por analise de sequencias do 16S rDNA metagenomico e microscopia eletronica de varredura

Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum, the bacterial agent responsible for the disease syphilis, is a member of the order Spirochaetales, the family Spirochaetaceae, and the genus Treponema (6).

A review of the biology and the laboratory diagnosis of Treponema pallidum infections

We hypothesize that Archaea and bacteria from the genus Treponema play a similar and competing role in oral ecology.

Microbial diversity of the human oral ecosystem

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