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Procedures for In Vitro Cultivation of Treponema pallidum, the Syphilis Spirochete
24 Jan 2025
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For over a century, Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum, the spiral-shaped bacterium that causes syphilis, could only be propagated by inoculation and harvest of the organisms from rabbit testes. In 2018, we described a method to continuously cultivate T. pallidumin vitro. This system utilizes co-culture with rabbit epithelial cells (Sf1Ep cells) in a serum-containing tissue culture medium called TpCM-2. The T....
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