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Free-Living Saccharolytic Spirochetes: The Genus Spirochaeta

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The genus Spirochaeta includes anaerobic facultatively anaerobic spirochetes that are indigenous to aquatic environments such as the mud water of ponds marshes. These spirochetes occur in nature as free-living forms, that is, their existence does not depend on physical associations with other organisms (Canale-Parola, 1984b).

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  1. Emory University, 105 Bay Colt Road, 30201, Alpharetta, GA, USA

    Albert Balows

  2. Institute for Microbiology, University of Bonn, D-5300, Bonn 1, Germany

    Hans G. Trüper

  3. Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, 55455, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Martin Dworkin

  4. TNO Institute of Environmental Sciences, 2600 AE, Delft, The Netherlands

    Wim Harder

  5. Department of Microbiology, Technical University, D-8000, Munich 2, Germany

    Karl-Heinz Schleifer

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Canale-Parola, E. (1992). Free-Living Saccharolytic Spirochetes: The Genus Spirochaeta . In: Balows, A., Trüper, H.G., Dworkin, M., Harder, W., Schleifer, KH. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2191-1_29

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