Crossword-Solution: SPIROCHAETE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spirochaete | n. | A genus of Spirobacteria similar to Spirillum, but distinguished by its motility. One species, the Spirochaete Obermeyeri, is supposed to be the cause of relapsing fever. |
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| a slender, twisted, non-flagellated microorganism causing malaria, relapsing fever, yaws, and other maladies | 1 answer |
| Bacteria | 35 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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The discoverer first called it the "Spirochaete pallidum," but later invented a new name--"Treponema pallidum"--by which it is at present generally known.
Divisions perpendicular to the long axis:--_Vibrio_ (Müller-Löffler), comma-shaped, motile, monotrichous; _Spirillum_ (Ehrenb.), more strongly curved in open spirals, motile, lophotrichous; _Spirochaete_ (Ehrenb.), spirally coiled in numerous close turns, motile, but apparently owing to flexile movements, as no cilia are found.
They are divided into three classes: (1) _cocci_--these are minute spheres about one twenty-five thousandth of an inch in diameter, arranged in chains or clusters; (2) _bacilli_--these are straight rods about the breadth of a coccus and two to four times as long; (3) _spirilla_--here there are two forms; one is like a bacillus, but curved (spirillum proper or vibrio); the other is a very fine spiral thread (spirochaete) often only half the thickness of a vibrio and two to six times as long.
Schizomycetae, or Bacteria, _genera_: Micrococcus, Rod-bacterium, Bacillus, Spirillum.[22] [Footnote 21: For further details concerning these the reader is referred to the works of Magnin, Belfield, and Gradle on _The Bacteria_, and on the _Germ Theory of Disease_.] [Footnote 22: Cohn also separates vibrio and spirochaete as genera distinct from spirillum.
Have we then a symbiosis between a spirochaete and an invisible virus, possibly filterable? Wolbach has shown that certain spirochaetes will pass through a Berkefeld filter as spirochaetes but this would not affect the possibility of the existence of some granule or chlamydozoal stage.