Klingmüller G
Hautarzt. 1983 Dec;34(12):628-31.
First Schaudinn and Hoffmann named the causative organism of syphilis Spirochaeta pallida. Short time later Schaudinn proposed the name Treponema. He mentioned it in a letter of October 14, 1905 to Hoffmann. He supposed that this germ may be a flagellate. This was not correct. The electron-microscopic investigations revealed that this idea did not concur. Therefore it is better to call them Spirochaeta pallida and not Treponema pallidum any more.
首先，绍丁和霍夫曼将梅毒的病原体命名为苍白密螺旋体。不久后，绍丁提出了密螺旋体这个名称。他在1905年10月14日给霍夫曼的一封信中提到了这一点。他认为这种病菌可能是一种鞭毛虫。这是不正确的。电子显微镜研究表明这个观点并不成立。因此，最好还是称它们为苍白密螺旋体，而不再是梅毒螺旋体。
