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Definition of Genus Spirochaeta

1. Noun. The type genus of the family Spirochaetaceae; a bacterium that is flexible, undulating, and chiefly aquatic.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Spirochaeta

Literary usage of Genus Spirochaeta

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Pathology and Differential Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases of Animals by Veranus Alva Moore (1916)
"CHAPTER VIII DISEASES CAUSED BY PROTOZOA genus Spirochaeta General consideration of the ... The genus Spirochaeta is given by Migula as one of the ..."

2. Household Bacteriology for Students in Domestic Sciences by Estelle Denis Buchanan, Robert Earle Buchanan (1913)
"In the genus Spirochaeta the cell is an exceedingly slender, flattened, spiral body with an undulating membrane surrounding the entire body in a spiral. ..."

3. Microbiology: A Text-book of Microörganisms, General and Applied by Charles Edward Marshall (1917)
"Genus: Spirochaeta EHRENBERG. The cells are flexible spirals, very thin and long. No flagella are present. These bacteria move by rotation similar to a ..."

4. Microbiology for Agricultural and Domestic Science Students by Charles Edward Marshall, Frederic Theodore Bioletti (1911)
"Genus: Spirochaeta EHRENBERG. The cells are flexible spirals, very thin and long. No flagella are present. These bacteria move by rotation similar to a ..."

5. Microbiology for Agricultural and Domestic Science Students by Charles Edward Marshall, Frederic Theodore Bioletti (1911)
"Genus: Spirochaeta EHRENBERG. The cells are flexible spirals, very thin and long. No flagella are present. These bacteria move by rotation similar to a ..."

6. Principles of Microbiology: A Treatise on Bacterias Fungi and Protozoa by Veranus Alva Moore (1912)
"The best known, morphologically, of these forms is the type genus spirochaeta with undulating membrane and without flagella. According to Calkins,2 there ..."

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