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. 1972 Feb;109(2):943–944. doi: 10.1128/jb.109.2.943-944.1972

Shape of Treponema pallidum

C D Cox 1
PMCID: PMC285247  PMID: 4550825

Abstract

Treponema pallidum was found to be not helical, but a flat wave twisted into one to five different planes per cell.

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