Species/Subspecies: | Treponema paraluiscuniculi | ||||||||
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Category: | Motile | ||||||||
Etymology: | Genus name: A turning thread Species epithet: From a rabbit with a syphilis like disease | ||||||||
Significance: | [Of minor importance] | ||||||||
Alternative Species Name(s): | Treponema cuniculi | ||||||||
Taxonomy: | Class Spirochaetia Order Spirochaetales Family Treponemataceae Genus Treponema |
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Type Strain: | Not defined, but Cuniculi A is a reference strain. | ||||||||
Macromorphology (smell): | Cannot be cultivated in articial media and is, therfore, propagated intratesicularly in rabbits. | ||||||||
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Disease: | Rabbit venereal syphilis or venereal rabbit spirochetosis.
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Diagnostics: | Dark field microscopy of the lesions are used for diagnostics. | ||||||||
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About 30 different species have been described within the genus Treponema. There are different opinions among researchers about which should be regarded as separate species or only as subspecies of a certain species. T. paraluiscuniculi is very closely related to T. pallidum subsp. pallidum and T. pallidum subsp. pertenue. See the phylogenetic tree (Fig. 134:1). Some researchers regard the two latter as separate species. | ||||||||
Comment: | Has not been cultivated in vitro. The disease cannot be transmitted to humans. | ||||||||
Reference(s): | No. 54, 55 | ||||||||
Updated: | 2023-03-08 |
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