Spirillum

Spirillum

Spirillum in microbiology refers to a bacterium with a cell body that twists like a spiral. It is the third distinct bacterial cell shape type besides coccus and bacillus cells. "Spirillum" is a genus of gram-negative bacteria comprising elongated forms having tufts of flagella at both poles and usually living in stagnant water rich in organic matter. They are spirally twisted, and aerobic, certain species are pathogenic for humans. It is the type genus for the family Spirilliaceae in some bacterial classifications.The word "spirilla" comes form the Greek word spirochaete which means "spiral-sheet".

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*cite web|url=http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Spirillum|title=Microbe Wiki
*cite web|url=http://www.bacterio.cict.fr/sz.html|title=List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature|author=J.P. Euzéby


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