title: Characterization of the agent of swine dysentery based on deoxyribonucleic acid homology.
abstract: Chromosomal deoxyribonucleic acids (DNAs) of five strains formally assigned to Treponema hyodysenteriae and Treponema innocens have been compared. The results of DNA-DNA-hybridization indicate that all the strains belong to the same species. The very low guanine-plus-cytosine values between 24.7 and 29.7 mol% are regarded as further evidence in favour of the reclassification of the swine dysentery agent as Borrelia hyodysenteriae (comb. nov. Blaha).
authors.affiliation: Institut für bakterielle Tierseuchenforschung Jena, Akademie der Landwirtschaftswissenschaften, DDR.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sachse
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Blaha
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004403:Dysentery / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D013552:Swine; D013553:Swine Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D014208:Treponema / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014211:Treponemal Infections / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial