title: Treponema vincentii
text: # Treponema vincentii
  
  Treponema vincentii is a species of Treponema. It is implicated as a pathogen in chronic periodontitis which can induce bone loss. This motile bacillus is a spirochaete.
  
  It was previously known as Borrelia vincentii (Blanchard, 1906).
  
  