Multiple choice

Which of the following bacteria is not an example of spirochetes?

  1. Treponema

  2. Spirillum

  3. Leptospira

  4. Borrelia

  5. None of these
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B Correct answer
Explanation

An important morphological difference from the helical spirochetes is that Spirillum bacteria are motile by conventional polar flagella, rather than axial filaments. This is why Spirilum is not classified as spirochete.

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