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Leptospira have a Gram-negative-like cell envelope consisting of a cytoplasmic and outer membrane. However, the peptidoglycan layer is associated with the cytoplasmic rather than the outer membrane, an arrangement that is unique to spirochetes.
Like Gram-negative bacteria, Leptospira have an outer membrane studded with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on the surface, an inner membrane and a layer of peptidoglycan cell wall. However, unlike Gram-negative bacteria, the peptidoglycan layer in Leptospira lies closer to the inner than the outer membrane.
L. interrogans cells are gram-negative, tightly coiled, motile spirochetes, with two periplasmic flagella. [1] One flagellum is inserted at each end of the bacterium. The cells are thin, about 0.15 μm, and long, between 6-20 μm, with a corkscrew shaped body with spiral or hooked ends. [1]
Leptospira noguchii are spirochete-shaped, gram-negative bacterium that typically range from 0.1 μm by 6 μm to 0.1 μm to 20 μm. [9] [10] Leptospira noguchii also lacks glycolipids in their peptidoglycan and contain diaminopimelic acid. [10] L. noguchii is a motile organism due to having amphitrichous flagella on opposing ends of each other ...
Leptospira alstonii is a gram negative, mobile, spirochete. [1] It is flexible, helical, and motile by means of two periplasmic flagella (axial fibrils). It is obligately aerobic and oxidase positive. It was named after J. M. Alston, a British microbiologist who made significant contributions to the study of Leptospirosis. [2]
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Leptospira kirschneri is a Gram negative, obligate aerobe species of spirochete bacteria named for University of Otago bacteriologist Dr. Leopold Kirschner. It is a member of the genus Leptospira. [1] [2] The species is pathogenic and can cause leptospirosis, most commonly in pigs. [3] [4]
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