#family_Treponemataceae__Treponemataceae small spirochetes some parasitic or pathogenic
supertype: bacteria_family a family of bacteria
member of: order_Spirochaetales
member: genus_Treponema type genus of Treponemataceae: anaerobic spirochetes with an undulating rigid body; parasitic in warm-blooded animals
member: treponema spirochete that causes disease in humans (e.g. syphilis and yaws)
member: genus_Borrelia small flexible parasitic spirochetes having three to five wavy spirals
member: borrelia cause of e.g. European and African relapsing fever
member: Borrelia_burgdorferi__Lime_disease_spirochete cause of Lyme disease; transmitted primarily by ticks of genus Ixodes
member: genus_Leptospira very slender aerobic spirochetes; free-living or parasitic in mammals
member: leptospira important pathogens causing Weil's disease or canicola fever
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