Treponema isoptericolens is a spirochaete from the hindgut of the termite Incisitermes tabogae. Its cells are motile, helical in shape, 0.4–0.5 μm in diameter and generally 12–20 μm long; it is obligately anaerobic, with type strain SPIT5T (=DSM 18056T =JCM 13955T).
References
Further reading Maier, Raina M., Ian L. Pepper, and Charles P. Gerba, eds. Environmental microbiology. Vol. 397. Academic press, 2009.
External links
LPSN Type strain of Treponema isoptericolens at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase