Definition of Genus Leptospira

1. Noun. Very slender aerobic spirochetes; free-living or parasitic in mammals.

Generic synonyms: Bacteria Genus
Group relationships: Family Treponemataceae, Treponemataceae
Member holonyms: Leptospira

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Leptospira

genus Lepidium
genus Lepidobotrys
genus Lepidochelys
genus Lepidocybium
genus Lepidothamnus
genus Lepiota
genus Lepisma
genus Lepisosteus
genus Lepomis
genus Leptarrhena
genus Leptinotarsa
genus Leptodactylus
genus Leptoglossus
genus Leptopteris
genus Leptoptilus
genus Leptospira (current term)
genus Leptotyphlops
genus Lepus
genus Lespedeza
genus Lesquerella
genus Leucadendron
genus Leucaena
genus Leucanthemum
genus Leuciscus
genus Leucocytozoan
genus Leucocytozoon
genus Leucogenes
genus Leucothoe
genus Levisticum
genus Lewisia

Literary usage of Genus Leptospira

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Principles of Bacteriology: A Practical Manual for Students and Physicians by Alexander Crever Abbott (1921)
"When obtained in culture (Noguchi) they are dissolved by 10 per cent. bile salts and more slowly by 10 per cent. saponin. genus Leptospira. ..."

2. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1919)
"... infected guinea pigs an organism belonging to the genus Leptospira has been demonstrated and that the organism, after having been obtained in culture, ..."

3. Diagnostic Methods, Chemical, Bacteriological and Microscopical: A Text-book by Ralph Waldo Webster (1920)
"... a spirochete, a spiro- nema, nor a treponema, but belongs to the genus Leptospira. For methods of cultivation see the original literature. ..."

4. Animal Parasites and Human Disease by Asa Crawford Chandler (1922)
"Noguchi believes this spirochaete to have characteristics sufficiently distinctive to warrant its being placed in a new genus, Leptospira. ..."

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