FAMILY TREPONEMATACEAE 



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Nouveau Traits de M^decine, Paris, 4, 

 1922, 501.) From the blood in a case of 

 blackwater fever. 



Leptospira interrogans (Stimson) No- 

 guchi. {Spirochaeta interrogans Stim- 

 son, U. S. Public Health Rept., Part 1, 22, 

 1907, 541; Leptospira icteroides Noguchi, 

 Jour. Exp. Med., 29, 1919, 581; Trepo- 

 nema interrogans Brumpt, Nouveau 

 Traits de Medecine, Paris, 4, 1922, 505; 

 Treponema icteroides Brumpt, ibid. ; Spi- 

 rochaeta icteroides Lehmann and Neu- 

 mann, Bakt. Diag., 7 Aufl., ^,1927, 576; 

 Noguchi, in Jordan and Falk, Newer 

 Knowledge Bact. and Immun., 1928, 454.) 

 Noguchi (1928) regards this species as 

 identical with Leptospira icterohaemor- 

 rhagiae. 



Leptospira pettiti (Fiessinger) Hindle. 

 (Spirochaete pettiti Fiessinger, Ann. de 

 M^d., 5, 1918, 156; Treponema pettiti 

 Brumpt, Nouveau Traits de Medecine, 

 Paris, 4, 1922, 510; Hindle, Med. Res. 

 Council Syst. of Bact., 8, 1931, 316 ; Spiro- 

 chaeta pettiti Hindle, idem; not Spiro- 

 chaeta pettiti Row, Jour. Trop. Med. and 

 Hyg., 1922, 364.) From urine. Morpho- 

 logically indistinguishable from Lepto- 

 spira icterohaemorrhagiae . 



Leptospira pyrogenes Vervoort. (Ver- 

 voort, Geneesk. Tijdschr. v. Ned. Indie, 

 63, 1923, 800; Spirochaeta febrilis Ver- 

 voort, Rep. Far East. Assoc. Trop. Med., 

 London, 1923, 683; Spirochaeta pijrogencs 

 Hindle, Med. Res. Council Syst. of Bact., 

 8, 1931, 314.) From the blood of persons 

 suffering from dengue-like fevers in Su- 

 matra. Pathogenic. 



Leptospira saxkoebing Petersen. (Acta 

 Path, et Microbiol. Scand., 21, 1944, 

 165.) A new serological type. 



Leptospira salina Ford. (Spirochaeta 

 pseudoicterogenes salina Uhlenhuth and 



Zuelzer, Cent. f. Bakt., I Abt., Orig., 

 85, 1921, *150; Ford, Textb. of Bact., 

 1927, 998.) From salt water. 



Leptospira trimerodonta (Hoffmann) 

 Noguchi. {Spirochaeta trimerodonta 



Hoffmann, Deutsch. med. Wochnschr., 

 46, 1920, 257; Leptospira dentium Hoff- 

 mann, ibid., 625; Leptospira buccalis 

 Fontana, according to Pettit, Contribu- 

 tion a I'Etude des Spiroch^tid^s, Vanves, 

 II, 1928, 232; Noguchi, in Jordan and 

 Falk, Newer Knowledge Bact. and Im- 

 mun., 1928, 461.) From the oral cavity. 

 May be synonymous with Leptospira 

 icterohaemorrhagiae. 



Spirochaeta anthropopitheci Wilbert 

 and Delorme. (Ann. Inst. Past., 41 > 



1927, 1147.) Pathogenic for chimpanzees 

 in French Guinea. Probably identical 

 with Leptospira icterohaemorrhagiae . 



Spirochaeta elusa Wolbach and Binger. 

 (Wolbach and Binger, Jour. Med. Res., 

 30, 1914, 9; Treponema elusum Bergey et 

 al.. Manual, 1st ed., 1923, 428.) From 

 pond water. Not pathogenic. For a de- 

 scription of this species, see Bergey et al., 

 Manual, 5th ed., 1939,957. 



Spirochaeta ictero -uraemia canis Klar- 

 enbeek. (Tijdschr. Diergeneesk., 55, 



1928, 227.) From the kidneys of dogs. 

 Pathogenic for guinea pigs. May be syn- 

 onymous with Leptospira icterohaemor- 

 rhagiae or L. canicola. 



Spirochaeta psendohebdomadis Zuelzer. 

 (1925, in Prowazek, Handb. d. path. 

 Protoz., 3, 1931, 1671.) Probably identi- 

 cal with Leptospira hebdomadis. 



Spirochaeta trimeres Hoffmann. 

 (Deutsch. med. Wochnschr., 46, 1920, 

 257.) From the oral cavity. May be 

 synonymous with Leptospira trimero- 

 donta. 



