#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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