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spirillum

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spirillum

Any of the spiral-shaped bacteria that make up the genus Spirillum, which are aquatic except for one species that causes a type of rat-bite fever in humans. The term is used generally for any corkscrewlike species of bacteria (see spirochete). Spirilla are gram-negative (see gram stain) and move by means of tufts of flagella at each end.
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Rat bite fever is a zoonosis caused by either Streptobacillus moniliformis or Spirillum minus (1,3).
Streptobacillus moniliformis endocarditis by Alagesan, Ramasamy / Emerging Infectious Diseases
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