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Swimming of Borrelia

Species name: Borrelia burgdorferi

Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University Shuichi Nakamura

Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi was observed by dark-field microscopy. Each cell has 14-22 endoflagella. The cell body is not spiral but flat-wave shaped. The cell length is 3-20 μm.

(2014.10.14)

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