Mycoplasma mycoides
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Mycoplasma mycoides is a bacterial species in the class Mollicutes.
The subspecies "Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides small colony (SC) type" is known as the agent of Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP), a contagious lung disease of large and small ruminants. It was first isolated in 1998 by Edmond Nocard and others and the first isolated mycoplasma at all. [1]
Taxonomy
"Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides (SC) type" belongs to the mycoides cluster, a group of closely related infectious mycoplasmas, including:
- M. mycoides subsp. mycoides biotype large colony (LC)
- M. mycoides subsp. capri
- Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capricolum
- M. capricolum subsp. capripneumoniae
- Mycoplasma sp. 'bovine group 7'
References
- ^ Xiaoxing Cheng, et al. Insertion element IS1296 in Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides small colony identifies a European clonal line distinct from African and Australian strains Microbiology (1995), 141, 3221-3228
- ^ Cottew et al. 1987; Taxonomy of the Mycoplasma mycoides cluster. Isr J Med Sci 23, 632-635.
- ^ Abu Groun et al. 1994; Biochemical diversity within the ‘Mycoplasma mycoides’ cluster. Microbiology 140, 2033-2042.
- ^ Taylor, T. K., Bashiruddin, J. B. & Gould, A. R. 1992; Relationships between members of the Mycoplasma mycoides cluster as shown by DNA probes and sequence analysis. Int J Syst Bacteriol 42, 593-601.