#order_Spirochaetales__Spirochaetales higher bacteria; slender spiral rodlike forms
supertype: #animal_order the order of animals
member of: #division_Eubacteria
member: #family_Spirochaetaceae__Spirochaetaceae large coarsely spiral bacteria; free-living in fresh or salt water or commensal in bodies of oysters
member: #genus_Spirochaeta__Spirochaeta type genus of the family Spirochaetaceae; flexible undulating chiefly aquatic bacteria
member: #spirochete__spirochaete parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animals
member: #family_Treponemataceae__Treponemataceae small spirochetes some parasitic or pathogenic
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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