Certain Canine Weakly β-Hemolytic Intestinal Spirochetes Are Phenotypically and Genotypically Related to Spirochetes Associated with Human and Porcine Intestinal Spirochetosis

Authors

Gerald E. Duhamel, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
Nagaraja Muniappa, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Michelle R. Mathiesen, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
J. L. Johnson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
J. Toth, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
R. O. Elder, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
A. R. Doster, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

1995

Citation

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Aug. 1995, p. 2212–2215 Vol. 33, No. 8

Comments

Copyright 1995, American Society for Microbiology

Abstract

Four canine weakly β-hemolytic intestinal spirochetes associated with intestinal spirochetosis (IS-associated WBHIS) were compared with IS-associated human and porcine WBHIS and the type species for Serpulina hyodysenteriae and S. innocens by using phenotypic and genotypic parameters. The IS-associated canine, human, and porcine WBHIS belonged to a phyletic group distinct from but related to previously described Serpulina type species.