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SUBMITTER: Pati A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3035287 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Standards in genomic sciences 20100615 3
Brachyspira murdochii Stanton et al. 1992 is a non-pathogenic, host-associated spirochete of the family Brachyspiraceae. Initially isolated from the intestinal content of a healthy swine, the 'group B spirochaetes' were first described as Serpulina murdochii. Members of the family Brachyspiraceae are of great phylogenetic interest because of the extremely isolated location of this family within the phylum 'Spirochaetes'. Here we describe the features of this organism, together with the complete ...[more]