IAI FigSearch
Home Help [Feedback] [For Subscribers] [Archive] [Search] [Contents]
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Copyright Information
Right arrow Books from ASM Press
Right arrow MicrobeWorld
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Graves, S R
Right arrow Articles by Johnson, R C
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Graves, S R
Right arrow Articles by Johnson, R C
Infect Immun. 1975 November; 12(5): 1116-1120

Retention of motility and virulence of Treponema pallidum (Nichols strain) in vitro.

S R Graves, P L Sandok, H M Jenkin and R C Johnson

ABSTRACT

A maintenance medium for Treponema pallidum was designed to hold its Eh at the optimum for that organism, -10 to -110 mV. After 100% motile (freshly harvested) T. pallidum was inoculated into the medium, the motility of the treponemes decreased to 80% after 2 days, 50% after 3.5 days, and 0% after 9 days during incubation at 34 C. Full virulence was retained for 2 days, but it dropped rapidly thereafter, and the treponemes became avirulent by day 5.

Infect Immun. 1975 November; 12(5): 1116-1120






Home Help [Feedback] [For Subscribers] [Archive] [Search] [Contents]
J. Bacteriol. J. Virol. Eukaryot. Cell
Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. Clin. Vaccine Immunol. All ASM Journals

Copyright © 1975 by the American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.