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Definition of TREPONEME

  • A spirochete bacterium that is parasitic or pathogenic in humans and warm-blooded animals, including the causal agents of syphilis and yaws
  • a kind of bacterium, a spirochaete, that causes syphilis also TREPONEMA [n -S]