@article{mbs:/content/journal/micro/10.1099/00221287-116-2-539, author = "Lemcke, R. M. and Burrows, M. R.", title = "Sterol Requirement for the Growth of Treponema hyodysenteriae", journal= "Microbiology", year = "1980", volume = "116", number = "2", pages = "539-543", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-116-2-539", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/00221287-116-2-539", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1465-2080", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "The addition of cholesterol to a liquid medium containing bovine serum albumin (BSA) fraction V or acetone-delipidized BSA fraction V instead of serum stimulated the growth of Treponema hyodysenteriae, a serum-requiring spirochaete associated with swine dysentery. As little as 1·25 μg cholesterol ml−1 increased viable counts about 1000-fold. Sitosterol and cholestanol, but not pregnenalone, cholestenone or stigmasterol, produced a growth response comparable to that of cholesterol. The results suggest that T. hyodysenteriae requires a sterol for growth.", }