Treponema pectinovorum sp. nov. Isolated from Humans with Periodontitis
- 1 October 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Microbiology Society in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
- Vol. 33 (4), 852-856
- https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-33-4-852
Abstract
A new species of Treponema Treponema pectinovorum, which was isolated from supragingival and subgingival samples from patients with periodontitis, is described. This new anaerobic species requires rumen fluid or short-chain volatile fatty acids and a fermentable energy source. Pectin, polygalacturonic acid, glucuronic acid, and galacturonic acid are the only substrates fermented. The main end products of fermentation are acetic and formic acids; traces of pyruvic and lactic acids occasionally are found. The type strain of T. pectinovorum is strain VPI D-36DR-2 (= ATCC 33768). The guanine-plus-cytosine content of the deoxyribonucleic acid of the type strain is 39 mol%.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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