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/ˌspaɪroʊˌkitəˈstætɪk/ · adjective
(medicine, biology) Inhibiting (curbing) spirochetal populations although not destroying them..
As the previously used chemotherapeutic agents have only proved themselves to be spirochetostatic and not spirochetocidal, the patient is liable to a delayed infection which may not become manifest for years.
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Spirochetostatic means (medicine, biology) Inhibiting (curbing) spirochetal populations although not destroying them..
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As the previously used chemotherapeutic agents have only proved themselves to be spirochetostatic and not spirochetocidal, the patient is liable to a delayed infection which may not become manifest for years.
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