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Brachyspira aalborgi infection diagnosed by culture and 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing using human colonic biopsy specimens.

Identification of porcine intestinal spirochetes by PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of ribosomal DNA encoding 23S rRNA.

Spirochaetal lipoproteins and pathogenesis.

Bovine intestinal spirochaetosis with dysentery.

Severe ovine foot disease.

Phylogenetic relationships of symbiotic spirochetes in the gut of diverse termites.

Phenotypic and genotypic heterogeneity among cultivable pathogen-related oral spirochetes and Treponema vincentii.

PCR amplification from fixed tissue indicates frequent involvement of Brachyspira aalborgi in human intestinal spirochetosis.

Differentiation of Serpulina species by NADH oxidase gene (nox) sequence comparisons and nox-based polymerase chain reaction tests.

In vitro sensitivity of the swine Brachyspira species to tiamulin in Finland 1995-1997.

Variation amongst human isolates of Brachyspira (Serpulina) pilosicoli based on biochemical characterization and 16S rRNA gene sequencing.

Detection of extrachromosomal DNA in Italian isolates of weakly beta-haemolytic human intestinal spirochaetes.

Search for bacteriophages spontaneously occurring in cultures of haemolytic intestinal spirochaetes of human and animal origin.

Bacteriophages induced from weakly beta-haemolytic human intestinal spirochaetes by mitomycin C.

Spirochaetes and other bacterial species associated with bovine digital dermatitis.

Unification of the genera Serpulina and Brachyspira, and proposals of Brachyspira hyodysenteriae Comb. Nov., Brachyspira innocens Comb. Nov. and Brachyspira pilosicoli Comb. Nov.

Phylogenetic analysis of pathogen-related oral spirochetes.

Phylogeny of not-yet-cultured spirochetes from termite guts.

Syphilitic cervicitis simulating stage II cervical cancer. Report of two cases with cytologic findings.

A monoclonal antibody reacting with the cell envelope of spirochaetes isolated from cases of intestinal spirochaetosis in pigs and humans.