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treponema

n. Any of many anaerobic spirochetes, of the genus ''Treponema'', many of which cause infectious diseases

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treponema
  1. n. spirochete that causes disease in humans (e.g. syphilis and yaws)

  2. [also: treponemata (pl)]

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Treponema

Treponema is a genus of spiral-shaped bacteria. The major treponeme species of human pathogens is Treponema pallidum, whose subspecies are responsible for diseases such as syphilis, bejel, and yaws. Treponema carateum is the cause of pinta. Treponema paraluiscuniculi is associated with syphilis in rabbits.

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LUETIN for an emulsion or extract of pure culture of Treponema pallidum, which is designed to be employed for obtaining in suitable cases, a specific cutaneous reaction that may become a valuable diagnostic sign in certain stages or forms of syphilitic infection.

Their diagnostic units would identify the treponema pallidum bacteria, but it had been so many centuries since the last reported case of STD that I doubted if any symptomatic or treatment files even existed.

Now that I had wiped out treponema pallidum in every member of the tribe, it was time for the final showdown with my brother.

Yes: George was already on a pornography trip, very similar to Atlanta Hope and Smiling Jim Treponema, except that in his case it was egodystonic.

Both doctors, Papa and Theodore, pointed out that my mucous membranes had never been invaded by bugs - gonococci and spirochete treponema pallidum and such - because I had been drilled and drilled in ‘Always use a rubber except when you want a baby’, and my girls had been trained the same way.

Against that grim list, the sole crowd infectious diseases that can be attributed with certainty to pre-Columbian Native American societies were nonsyphilitic treponemas.