Isolation and cultivation of spirochetes and other spiral-shaped bacteria associated with the cecal mucosa of rats and mice.

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A method for the culture of spiral-shaped bacteria associated with the intestinal mucosa of rodents is described. The appearance in culture of a spiral organism from rat ceca and a spirochete from mouse ceca is illustrated; these organisms are morphologically similar to the major inhabitants of the cecal mucosa in each animal species.

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