Treponema pallidum (DSM 117211, Nichols)

Name: Treponema pallidum (DSM 117211, Nichols)
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BacDive ID 176908

Type strain

Strain Designation Nichols

Culture col. no. DSM 117211 Nichols

NCBI tax ID(s) 160 161

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Treponema pallidum Nichols is a prokaryote that was isolated from Cerebrospinal Fluid.

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 283325

DSM 117211

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:12:24

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Spirochaetota

Class Spirochaetia

Order Spirochaetales

Family Treponemataceae

Genus Treponema

Species Treponema pallidum

Full scientific name Treponema pallidum (Schaudinn and Hoffmann 1905) Schaudinn 1905 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (1)

"Spirochaeta pallida"

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
125977	positive	growth	34

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
125977	Cerebrospinal Fluid	Washington, D.C., USA	USA	USA	North America	38.8949	-77.0364 38.8949/-77.0364

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
125977	2	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#125977	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 117211
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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