Isolation and cultivation of spirochetes and other spiral-shaped bacteria associated with the cecal mucosa of rats and mice.
A method for the culture of spiral-shaped bacteria associated with the intestinal mucosa of rodents is described. The appearance in culture of a spiral organism from rat ceca and a spirochete from mouse ceca is illustrated; these organisms are morphologically similar to the major inhabitants of the cecal mucosa in each animal species.
D000818:Animals; D001431:Bacteriological Techniques; D002432:Cecum / Q000382:microbiology*; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000382:microbiology*; D051379:Mice; D051381:Rats; D013144:Spirochaetales / Q000254:growth & development / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000648:ultrastructure