SpirocheteWordNet Explorer

parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animals

a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella

higher bacteria; slender spiral rodlike forms

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

cause of e.g. European and African relapsing fever

cause of Lyme disease; transmitted primarily by ticks of genus Ixodes

important pathogens causing Weil's disease or canicola fever