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Descriptor English: Spirillum
Descriptor Spanish: Spirillum
Descriptor Spirillum
Scope note: Género de bacterias gramnegativas de forma curva o espiral, que se encuentran en medios con aguas dulces estancadas. Estos microorganismos son móviles y cuentan con penachos bipolares de flajelos o flajelos con una larga longitud de onda y aproximadamente una vuelta de hélice. Algunas especies de Spirillum producen una forma de FIEBRE POR MORDEDURA DE RATA.
Descriptor Portuguese: Spirillum
Descriptor French: Spirillum
Tree number(s): B03.440.840.750
B03.660.075.710.750
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013139
Scope note: A genus of gram-negative, curved and spiral-shaped bacteria found in stagnant, freshwater environments. These organisms are motile by bipolar tufts of flagella having a long wavelength and about one helical turn. Some species of Spirillum cause a form of RAT-BITE FEVER.
Annotation: infection: coord IM with GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS (IM) or RAT-BITE FEVER (IM)
Allowable Qualifiers: CH chemistry
CL classification
CY cytology
DE drug effects
EN enzymology
GD growth & development
GE genetics
IM immunology
IP isolation & purification
ME metabolism
PH physiology
PY pathogenicity
RE radiation effects
UL ultrastructure
VI virology
DeCS ID: 13522
Unique ID: D013139
NLM Classification: QW 154
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2009/07/06
Spirillum - Preferred
Concept UI M0020343
Scope note A genus of gram-negative, curved and spiral-shaped bacteria found in stagnant, freshwater environments. These organisms are motile by bipolar tufts of flagella having a long wavelength and about one helical turn. Some species of Spirillum cause a form of RAT-BITE FEVER.
Preferred term Spirillum



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