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The Genus Leptotrichia

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The Prokaryotes

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The oral cavity of humans is the natural habitat of several different kinds of filamentous organisms, including the Gram-negative anaerobic bacterium Leptotrichia buccalis. This organism, which is the only species of the genus Leptotrichia, was among the first microorganisms to be recognizably described and drawn in the letters of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek.

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  1. Emory University, 105 Bay Colt Road, 30201, Alpharetta, GA, USA

    Albert Balows

  2. Institute for Microbiology, University of Bonn, D-5300, Bonn 1, Germany

    Hans G. Trüper

  3. Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, 55455, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Martin Dworkin

  4. TNO Institute of Environmental Sciences, 2600 AE, Delft, The Netherlands

    Wim Harder

  5. Department of Microbiology, Technical University, D-8000, Munich 2, Germany

    Karl-Heinz Schleifer

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Hofstad, T. (1992). The Genus Leptotrichia . In: Balows, A., Trüper, H.G., Dworkin, M., Harder, W., Schleifer, KH. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2191-1_61

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