Bacteria and Respiration
Spirochetes and Fusiform Bacteria: Do they depend on Anerobic or Aerobic
There are species of both that do both. There are organisms in your mouth
that make an anaerobic environment for themselves by wrapping themselves in
goo, and others that live in the crevasses between your gums and teeth. The
organism that causes trenchmouth is a fusiform bacteria that is an anaerobe.
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Update: June 2012