Spirochaetaceae with the genera of human pathogenic importance:
Treponema
with the pathogenic species:
- Treponema carateum (Pinta)
- Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum(Syphilis)
- Treponema pallidum subspecies endemicum(Bejel)
- Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue(Frambösie)
- Treponema vincenti(Angina plaut- Vincenti)
with the apathogenic species:
- Treponema minutum (genital mucosa)
- Treponema phagedenis (genital mucosa)
- Treponema denticula (oral cavity)
- Brachyspira aalborgi (intestinal mucosa)
Borrelia (mostly rodents are hosts, various ectoparasites serve as vectors)
with the pathogenic species
- Borrelia recurrentis (worldwide/louse fever)
- Borrelia dutonii (Africa/tick-borne relapsing fever)
- Borrelia burgdorferi (Europe/North America/Borreliosis - Lyme disease)
- Borrelia garinii (Europe/Borreliosis - Lyme disease)
- Borrelia afzelii (Europe/Borreliosis - Lyme disease)
- Borrelia spielmanii (Europe/Borreliosis - Lyme disease)
Leptospira (typical anthropozoonoses occurring worldwide)
with the pathogenic species (Leptospira interrogans, subdivision into 200 serovars)
- Leptospira icterohaemorrhgiae (Morus Weil)
- Leptospira canicola (Canicola fever)
- Leptospira bataviae (field mud fever, harvest fever)