"Spirochaeta" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A genus of flexible, spiral rods found in hydrogen sulfide-containing mud, sewage, and polluted water. None of the species properly referred to in this genus are pathogenic.
| Descriptor ID |
D013142
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B03.440.425.410.711.679 B03.851.595.679
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| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Spirochaeta" by people in Profiles.
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Rectinema cohabitans gen. nov., sp. nov., a rod-shaped spirochaete isolated from an anaerobic naphthalene-degrading enrichment culture. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2017 May; 67(5):1288-1295.