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treponema Biol. and Med.|trɛpəʊˈniːmə|
Pl. -ˈnemata. Also anglicized as ˈtreponeme.
[mod.L. (coined in Ger. by F. Schaudinn 1905, in Deutsch. med. Wochenschr. 26 Oct. 1728/1), f. Gr. τρέπ-ειν to turn + νῆµα thread.]
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.
1908[see spirochæte s.v. spiro-]. 1922Nature 20 May 667/2 Existence of the treponeme in the cytoplasm of the nerve cells of the cerebral cortex. 1949M. 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. 1970New Scientist 19 Mar. 543/1 Late in the disease, dormant treponemes persist in some instances in lymph nodes and other tissues. 1981Brit. Med. Jrnl. 18 Apr. 1312/1 Walt Disney's serried ranks of gonococci and treponemes.
Hence trepoˈnemal a., of, pertaining to, or caused by treponemes; treponemaˈtosis (pl. -oses), infection with, or a disease caused by, treponemes.
1913Castellani & 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. 1927Jrnl. Laboratory & Clin. Med. XII. 670 In this paper we are using the term ‘treponematosis’ to include syphilis and the condition called yaws. 1970New Scientist 19 Mar. 543/1 Venereal syphilis of adults is rare in tropical regions where the endemic treponematoses, yaws and pinta, prevail. Ibid., The results of a quarter of a century's experience with penicillin in the treatment of treponemal disease, notably syphilis, are now available. 1980Nature 7 Feb. 573/2 Treponemal infection in irradiated mice. |