Electron micrograph of Treponema pallidum on cultures of cotton-tail rabbit epithelium cells (Sf1Ep).
Treponema pallidum is the causative agent of syphilis. In the United States, over 35,600 cases of syphilis were reported by health officials in 1999.
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