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Species/Subspecies: Treponema paraluiscuniculi
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:
Phylum
Spirochaetota
Class
Spirochaetia
Order
Spirochaetales
Family
Treponemataceae 
Genus
Treponema
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.
Micromorphology:
Gram +/Gram -:
Catalase/Oxidase:
Spec. Char.:
Disease:Rabbit venereal syphilis or venereal rabbit spirochetosis.
HostsDiseaseClinical picture
RabbitRabbit syphilis, or venereal rabbit spirochetosisSkin lesions around external genitalia, perineal area, nose, eyelids and lips. Infertility due to metritis or retained placenta, and preputial inflammation. Abortions do occur.
Diagnostics:Dark field microscopy of the lesions are used for diagnostics.
Genome Sequence:
Acc-noStrainSize (bp)Genome
CP002103 Cuniculi A 1 133 390 1c + 0 

16S rRNA Seq.:
Acc-noStrainNumber of NTOperon
JX120546 Cuniculi A 1537 

Taxonomy/phylogeny:
 
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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