treponeman.
/trɛpəʊˈniːmə/ Biology and Medicine.
An anærobic spirochæte of the genus of this name, the members of which are parasitic or pathogenic in man and warm-blooded animals and include those causing syphilis and yaws.
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vibrio1850
micrococcus1870
microzyme1870
Spirillum1875
mycothrix1876
leptothrix1877
Spirochaete1877
streptococcus1877
Actinomyces1879
frogspawn1880
schizophyte1880
schizomycetes1881
gonococcus1882
saprophile1882
vibrion1882
coccus1883
diplococcus1883
streptobacteria1883
Clostridium1884
actinomycetes1885
pneumococcus1885
macrococcus1887
staphylococcus1887
iron bacterium1888
Proteus1888
ferrobacterium1890
meningococcus1890
rhizobium1890
sulphobacteria1890
nitrobacterium1891
Streptothrix1891
sulphur bacterium1891
myxobacter1892
Myxococcus1892
tetracoccus1893
coli1894
Pasteurella1895
pyrotoxin1895
Gaertner1897
purple bacterium1897
myxobacterium1898
pseudomonas1899
thiobacteria1900
treponema1908
corynebacterium1909
mycobacterium1909
Salmonella1913
Neisseria1915
botulinum1916
rickettsia1916
leptospira1918
acetobacter1920
Brucella1920
pseudomonad1921
strep1927
enterobacterium1929
opportunist1937
eubacterium1939
agrobacterium1942
persister1944
Moraxella1948
enteric1956
streptomycete1956
leptospire1957
transformant1957
lysogen1958
listeria1961
C. difficile1962
yersinia1967
Campylobacter1971
cyanobacterium1973
coryneform1976
eubacterium1977
legionella1979
acetogen1982
C. diff.1990
acidophilous1996
1908 Practitioner Oct. 549 The treponema, or, as they are usually designated in this country, the spirochaetes.
1922 Nature 20 May 667/2 Existence of the treponeme in the cytoplasm of the nerve cells of the cerebral cortex.
1949 M. A. Jennings in H. W. Florey et al. Antibiotics II. xxxi. 1011 In a patient with concurrent typhoid fever the treponemata disappeared but the typhoid infection ran its usual course.
1970 New Scientist 19 Mar. 543/1 Late in the disease, dormant treponemes persist in some instances in lymph nodes and other tissues.
1981 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 18 Apr. 1312/1 Walt Disney's serried ranks of gonococci and treponemes.
Derivatives
trepoˈnemal adj. of, pertaining to, or caused by treponemes.
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bacteritic1881
paratyphoid1902
treponemal1913
spirochaetal1916
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vibrionic1850
vibrioid1864
micrococcal1881
gonococcal1888
pneumococcic1891
spirillar1891
pneumococcal1895
pneumococcous1897
streptococcal1897
streptococcic1897
paratyphoid1898
schizomycetic1898
amphitrichous1900
lophotrichous1900
staphylococcal1900
streptococcous1902
streptothricial1903
staphylococcic1904
rhizobial1906
meningococcal1907
meningococcic1907
clostridial1909
botulinum1910
coccoid1912
treponemal1913
Salmonella1916
leptospiral1924
neisserian1925
rickettsial1925
coccal1928
amphitrichate1929
botulinal1939
eubacterial1946
myxococcal1946
coryneform1952
neisserial1955
myxobacterial1957
listerial1961
listeric1961
cyanobacterial1974
1913 A. Castellani & A. J. Chalmers Man. Trop. Med. (ed. 2) xliv. 1191 These drugs seem to act in frambœsia more quickly and powerfully than in any other spirochætal and treponemal condition.
1970 New Scientist 19 Mar. 543/1 The results of a quarter of a century's experience with penicillin in the treatment of treponemal disease, notably syphilis, are now available.
1980 Nature 7 Feb. 573/2 Treponemal infection in irradiated mice.
treponemaˈtosis n. (pl. treponemaˈtoses) infection with, or a disease caused by, treponemes.
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endemic syphilis1865
Oroya fever1873
verruga1873
Weil's disease1889
undulant fever1896
pasteurellosis1902
microbism1904
spirillosis1904
spirochaetosis1906
necrobacillosis1907
melioidosis1921
Reiter's disease1922
rickettsiosis1925
leptospirosis1926
Carrion's disease1927
treponematosis1927
bartonellosis1928
brucellosis1930
mycobacteriosis1938
listerellosis1939
listeriosis1941
shigellosis1944
Reiter's syndrome1947
Shigella dysentery1963
pigbel1966
mud fever1969
Lyme arthritis1976
toxic shock syndrome1978
legionellosis1979
TSS1980
1927 Jrnl. Laboratory & Clin. Med. 12 670 In this paper we are using the term ‘treponematosis’ to include syphilis and the condition called yaws.
1970 New Scientist 19 Mar. 543/1 Venereal syphilis of adults is rare in tropical regions where the endemic treponematoses, yaws and pinta, prevail.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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