#spirochete__spirochaete parasitic or free-living bacteria; many pathogenic to humans and other animals
supertype: #eubacteria__eubacterium__truebacteria a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella
member of: #order_Spirochaetales
subtype: #treponema spirochete that causes disease in humans (e.g. syphilis and yaws)
subtype: #borrelia cause of e.g. European and African relapsing fever
subtype: #Borrelia_burgdorferi__Lime_disease_spirochete cause of Lyme disease; transmitted primarily by ticks of genus Ixodes
subtype: #leptospira important pathogens causing Weil's disease or canicola fever
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