What's the difference between spirilla and spirillum?
Spirilla
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Spirillum
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(n.) A genus of common motile microorganisms (Spirobacteria) having the form of spiral-shaped filaments. One species is said to be the cause of relapsing fever.
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(1) The implications of the power calculations for the Berg & Anderson (1973) rotating shaft model are discussed and it is shown that a rotational resistive theory analysis predicts a 5-cross bridge M ring for each flagellum of Spirillum.
(2) and a Spirillum sp., were grown in continuous culture under steady-state conditions in L-lactate-, succinate-, ammonium- or phosphate-limited media.
(3) Spirillum-like MO sometimes penetrate into the parietal cells.
(4) Many of the isolates could not be identified, but the largest single group belonged to the genus Spirillum; other isolates were placed in the genera Leucothrix, Flavobacterium, Cytophaga, and Vibrio.
(5) A freshwater Spirillum sp., which apparently belongs to a niche of low nutritional status (Matin & Veldkamp, 1978), accumulated poly-beta-hydroxybutyric acid (PHB) during lactate-limited growth in continuous culture.
(6) The addition of nitrate to cultures of Spirillum itersonii incubated under low aeration produced a diauxic growth pattern in which the second exponential phase was preceded by the appearance of nitrite in the medium.
(7) Lower rates of C2H2 reduction were associated with control corn cultures which had been treated with autoclaved Spirillum than with cultures inoculated with live Spirillum.
(8) Aquaspirillum (Spirillum) gracile is one of the few spirilla that cause acidification of the medium when cultured with sugars.
(9) The other factors which appear to be involved include a lower energy of maintenance of Spirillum sp.
(10) It is proposed that this bacterium is the human gastric spirillum that in most persons lives in harmony with its natural host, resulting in asymptomatic infection.
(11) The methodology for deoxyribonucleic acid-mediated transformation of Spirillum lipoferum to resistance to various antimicrobial agents is reported.
(12) A mathematical model employing slender body theory is constructed for a unipolar Spirillum volutans cell with the model cell allowed to move unconstrainedly in the fluid.
(13) Very few spiral bacteria, including those of the spirillum type, were seen in the lumen of the large intestine.
(14) The lowest viscosity that immobilized flagellated bacteria such as Psedomonas aeruginosa, Spirillum serpens, and Escherichia coli was 60 centipoise (cp).
(15) This wrinkling effect is believed (on circumstantial evidence) to be caused by the bdellovibrio's disruption of the cell wall lipoprotein of the Spirillum.
(16) The gastric spirillum Helicobacter felis, originally isolated from the cat stomach, colonizes the stomachs of germfree rats.
(17) Sorghum and corn breeding lines were grown in soil in field and greenhouse experiments with and without an inoculum of N2-fixing in Spirillum strains from Brazil.
(18) In Spirillum sp., resistance correlated directly with the PHB content of the culture subjected to starvation, whereas in Pseudomonas sp.
(19) A complex and easily disrupted arrangement of macromolecules was present on the outer (lipopolysaccharide) membrane of the cell wall of Spirillum metamorphum.
(20) That the peptidoglycan backbone remains essentially intact, even after the Spirillum cell has been entered by the Bdellovibrio, is supported by the observation that the soluble amino sugar content of the culture medium, as determined by chemical analysis, does not rise even 5.0 h after the association of the Bdellovibrio with the Spirillum has begun.