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How the (syphilis) patients infected with the malarial
Introduction:
The microbe Treponema pallidum is the infectious agent of the disease syphilis. Despite several efforts that have been made for centuries, the scientists failed to provide the culture conditions in a laboratory required by the bacterium. This bacterium requires host cell for its growth and survival. Therefore, this bacterium can be grown only in the living cells (rabbit) and cannot be cultured in the laboratory. Most of the microbes have never been grown in any culture media.
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