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Treponema parvum sp. nov., a small, glucoronic or galacturonic acid-dependent oral spirochaete from lesions of human periodontitis and acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 May 2001
Wyss C, Dewhirst F E, Gmür R, Thurnheer T, Xue Y, Schüpbach P, Guggenheim B, Paster B J
Abstract excerpt
Small oral spirochaetes with a strict dependence on either glucuronic acid (GluA) or galacturonic acid (GalA) were isolated from European patients with periodontitis and from Chinese patients with either gingivitis or acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis (ANUG). Thirteen such isolates were similar phenotypically to Treponema pectinovorum ATCC 33768T and this classification was confirmed by 16S rRNA sequencing....
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