How To Use spirochete In A Sentence
- Lyme disease, caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, is the most common vector-borne illness in the United States.
- Relapsing fever is caused by the spirochete within the genus Borrelia.
- Mites and ticks which feed on vertebrate hair or blood often carry disease organisms, such as spirochete bacteria, responsible for relapsing fever and Lyme disease.
- Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pallidum.
- Lyme disease is caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi and is transmitted to human hosts by ticks of the Ixodes genus.
- Spirochetes live in our gums; staphylococci, micrococci, and a small yeast from the genus Pityrosporon clothe our hides.
- What properties of spirochetes (or of the termite gut itself) enable them to become such a prominent component of the microbiota?
- In recent population genetic studies of Borrelia burgdorferi, the spirochete that causes Lyme disease, Borrelia genes were directly amplified from infected ticks using a nested PCR design.
- McLaren AJ, Hampson DJ (1995) Pathogenicity of human and porcine intestinal spirochetes in day-old specific pathogen free chicks: an animal model of intestinal spirochetosis. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- Penicillin also kills corkscrew organisms such as the spirochete of syphillis.
