Behaviour of Spirochaetae in Various Tissue Fluids (1931)
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Spirochaetae
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How to Pronounce spirochaetae - American English
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Spirochetes in the pockets of the gums
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Spirochaetae and Diatoms Lead a Busy Life
A spirochaete or spirochete is a member of the phylum Spirochaetes, which contains distinctive diderm (double-membrane) bacteria, most of which have long, helically coiled cells. Spirochaetes are chemoheterotrophic in nature, with lengths between 3 and 500 µm and diameters around 0.09 to at least 3 µm.