At the suggestion of a kind soul who read my posting on Campylobacter I
will try and make my answer more concise and clear.
No - species in the Campylobacter genus are not spirochetes, if you
define spirochetes in an evolutionary sense. That is, despite some
phenotypic similarities to spirochetes, species in the Campylobacter
genus are evolutionarily distant from true spirochetes like Borrelia.
Jonathan Eisen
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