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spirochetemia

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spi·ro·che·te·mi·a (spr-k-tm-)
n.
The presence of spirochetes in the blood.

spirochetemia
[spī′rōkətē′mē·ə]
Etymology: Gk, speira, coil, chaite + haima, blood
the presence of spirochetal organisms in the blood. See also spirochete.


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Spirochetemia results in the subsequent presence or infectious organisms in the mucocutaneous lesions of secondary syphilis.
hermsii produced a detectable spirochetemia in 1 chicken inoculated subcutaneously.
Briefly, successive waves of spirochetemia characteristically seen in relapsing fever are associated with different antigenic variants, which result from rearrangement of silent variable membrane protein genes into an expression locus.
 
 
 
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