| 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 Spirochaetaceae 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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| Hosts: | Rabbit and hare. | ||||||||
| Clinical Picture: | Vesicles and scrabs around the genital organs. The lesions persist for a long time in females. The lesions may also appear on nose and forelegs. | ||||||||
| Diagnostics: | Dark field microscopy of the lesions are used for diagnostics. | ||||||||
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About 25 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: | 2022-10-03 |