''Leptospira kirschneri'' is a

Gram negative The gram (originally gramme; SI unit symbol g) is a unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one one thousandth of a kilogram. Originally defined as of 1795 as "the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to th ...

, obligate aerobe species of

spirochete A spirochaete () or spirochete is a member of the phylum Spirochaetota (), (synonym Spirochaetes) which contains distinctive diderm (double-membrane) gram-negative bacteria, most of which have long, helically coiled (corkscrew-shaped or s ...

bacteria named for

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bacteriologist Dr. Leopold Kirschner. It is a member of the genus ''

Leptospira ''Leptospira'' ( grc, leptos, italics=yes, 'fine, thin' and la, spira, links=no, 'coil') is a genus of spirochaete bacteria, including a small number of pathogenic and saprophytic species. ''Leptospira'' was first observed in 1907 in kidney ti ...

''. The species is pathogenic and can cause leptospirosis, most commonly in pigs.

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NCBI TaxonomyType strain of ''Leptospira kirschneri'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
kirschneri Bacteria described in 1992 {{spirochaetae-stub