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Treponema pallidum

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Treponema pallidum
<tr><td>Kingdom:<td>Bacteria <tr><td>Phylum:<td>Spirochaete <tr><td>Class:<td>Schizomycetes <tr><td>Order:<td>Spirochaetales <tr><td>Family:<td>Spirochaetaceae <tr><td>Genus:<td>Treponema <tr><td>Species:<td>pallidum </table> <tr><th bgcolor=lightgrey>Binomial name <tr><td align="center">Treponema pallidum </table> Treponema pallidum is a spirochaete bacterium. There are at least three known subspecies, T. pallidum pallidum, which causes syphilis; T. pallidum pertenue, which causes yaws; and T. pallidum endemicum, which causes bejel. In the July 17, 1998 issue of the journal Science, a group of biologists reported how they sequenced the genome of T. pallidum.
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