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Free-Living Anaerobic and Facultatively Anaerobic Spirochetes: The Genus Spirochaeta

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The genus Spirochaeta includes anaerobic and facultatively anaerobic spirochetes that are indigenous to aquatic environments such as the mud and water of ponds and swamps. These spirochetes occur in nature as free-living forms. Thus, their existence does not depend on physical associations with living eu-karyotic or prokaryotic organisms (Canale-Parola, 1977).

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  1. Ercole Canale-Parola
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  1. Department of Bacteriology, University of California, 95616, Davis, California, USA

    Mortimer P. Starr

  2. Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Universität Bayreuth, 8580, Bayreuth, Federal Republic of Germany

    Heinz Stolp

  3. Institut für Mikrobiologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, 5300, Bonn 1, Federal Republic of Germany

    Hans G. Trüper

  4. Bacteriology Division, Centers for Disease Control, 30333, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Albert Balows

  5. Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Göttingen, 3400, Göttingen, Federal Republic of Germany

    Hans G. Schlegel

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Canale-Parola, E. (1981). Free-Living Anaerobic and Facultatively Anaerobic Spirochetes: The Genus Spirochaeta . In: Starr, M.P., Stolp, H., Trüper, H.G., Balows, A., Schlegel, H.G. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13187-9_46

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