Brachyspira Hovind-Hougen et al. 1983 non Foliella non Pfeiffer 1855
Type species
Brachyspira aalborgi
Hovind-Hougen et al. 1983
Species
See text.
Synonyms
"Anguillina" Lee et al. 1993 non Cossmann 1912 non Hammerschmidt 1839
Serpula Stanton et al. 1991 non (Persson 1801) Gray 1821 non Linnaeus 1758 non Coy 1862
Serpulina Stanton 1992 non Zborzevski 1834
Brachyspira is a genus of bacteria classified within the phylum Spirochaetota.[1][2][3]
Brachyspira species include pathogens in pigs, birds, dogs, and humans.
B. pilosicoli colonizes millions of humans worldwide, leading to human intestinal spirochaetosis, a chronic, intermittent watery diarrhea vastly underdiagnosed [4] because of the lack of a simple diagnostic tool for clinicians. Multiplex qPCRs are promising diagnostic tools, as Brachyspira do not grow on conventional media.[5]
B. pilosicoli also cause avian spirochetosis:[1] birds might be considered as the natural reservoir.
B. hyodysenteriae leads to diarrheal disease in growing pigs worldwide, causing the so-called swine dysentery, typhlocolitis or porcine intestinal spirochaetosis, which contributes to major "production losses" in agrobusiness.
Some species like B. innocens or B. intermedia seem to be less virulent.
^ abLe Roy, Caroline I.; Mappley, Luke J.; La Ragione, Roberto M.; Woodward, Martin J.; Claus, Sandrine P. (5 March 2019). "Brachyspira pilosicoli-induced avian intestinal spirochaetosis". Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease. 26: 28853. doi:10.3402/mehd.v26.28853. PMC 4683989. PMID 26679774.
^See the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature. Data extracted from J.P. Euzéby. "Spirochaetes". Archived from the original on 2011-06-13. Retrieved 2011-11-17.
^See the NCBI webpage on Spirochaetes Data extracted from Sayers; et al. "NCBI Taxonomy Browser". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2011-06-05.
^Hampson, David J. (2017). "The Spirochete Brachyspira pilosicoli, Enteric Pathogen of Animals and Humans". Clinical Microbiology Reviews. 31 (1). doi:10.1128/CMR.00087-17. PMC 5740978. PMID 29187397.
^Borgström, Anna; Scherrer, Simone; Kirchgässner, Constanze; Schmitt, Sarah; Frei, Daniel; Wittenbrink, Max M. (7 February 2017). "A novel multiplex qPCR targeting 23S rDNA for diagnosis of swine dysentery and porcine intestinal spirochaetosis". BMC Veterinary Research. 13 (1): 42. doi:10.1186/s12917-016-0939-6. PMC 5297149. PMID 28173799.
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