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Coevolution of symbiotic spirochete diversity in lower termites.

Anti-tumor necrosis factor-alpha treatment activates Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes 4 weeks after ceftriaxone treatment in C3H/He mice.

Prophage-like gene transfer agents-novel mechanisms of gene exchange for Methanococcus, Desulfovibrio, Brachyspira, and Rhodobacter species.

Induction and transcription of VSH-1, a prophage-like gene transfer agent of Brachyspira hyodysenteriae.

The organic acid profiles in the feces of pigs at Brachyspira hyodysenteriae- or B. pilosicoli-positive farms.

In situ immune response in brain and kidney during early relapsing fever borreliosis.

The effect of fermentable carbohydrates on experimental swine dysentery and whip worm infections in pigs.

Optic neuropathy from viruses and spirochetes.

Microfluidic digital PCR enables multigene analysis of individual environmental bacteria.

Comparative evaluation of molecular assays for the identification of intestinal spirochaetes from diseased pigs.

Intestinal spirochaetosis.

The last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA): acquisition of cytoskeletal motility from aerotolerant spirochetes in the Proterozoic Eon.

The 23S rRNA gene PCR-RFLP used for characterization of porcine intestinal spirochete isolates.

Development of a two-step nested duplex PCR assay for the rapid detection of Brachyspira pilosicoli and Brachyspira intermedia in chicken faeces.

Intestinal spirochetosis and chronic watery diarrhea: clinical and histological response to treatment and long-term follow up.

Java project on periodontal diseases. The natural development of periodontitis: risk factors, risk predictors and risk determinants.

[Walter Krienitz--his life and intuitive description of bacteria in the stomach]

Risk factors associated with Brachyspira hyodysenteriae PCR-positivity in East-European pig production units.

Differential expression of the Bhmp39 major outer membrane proteins of Brachyspira hyodysenteriae.

Effects of griseoviridin and viridogrisein against swine dysentery in experimental infection by using mice and pigs.