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any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
Also, spi·ro·chaete.
Related forms
spi·ro·chet·al, spi·ro·che·tic, adjective
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Spirochaete
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| spirochaete or (US) spirochete (ˈspaɪrəʊˌkiːt) | |
| —n | |
| See treponema any of a group of spirally coiled rodlike bacteria that includes the causative agent of syphilis | |
| [C19: from New Latin spīrochaeta; see | |
| spirochete or (US) spirochete | |
| —n | |
| [C19: from New Latin spīrochaeta; see | |
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