[Spirochetes on the mucous membrane of the intestine].
Recently, it has been discovered that the mucosa of the large intestine and that of the appendix in man and in monkeys not infrequently is covered densely with spirochetes penetrated therein. These observations were confirmed by the material studied by the authors (specimens of the mucosa of the sigmoid flexture of 45 people, the specimens being obtained by means of aspiration biopsy, and the intestines of five monkeys). It was also established that spirochetes may also densely penetrate, covering almost entirely, into the inner surface of the large intestine, as if substituting by themselves for mircovilli of the epithelial cells. Such parasitism, however, does not produce any local reaction, and apparently, inflicts no special harm.
D000818:Animals; D001065:Appendix / Q000382:microbiology*; D000882:Haplorhini; D006801:Humans; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000382:microbiology*; D007420:Intestine, Large / Q000382:microbiology*; D013144:Spirochaetales / Q000302:isolation & purification
Spirokhety na slizistoĭ obolochke kishechnika