Nicholas, Robin, 1951-, Lin, Yi-Ching, Sachse, Konrad, Hotzel, Helmut, Parham, Katie, McAuliffe, Laura, Miles, Roger (Roger J.), Kelly, Donovan P., 1940- and Wood, Ann P.. (2008) Proposal that the strains of the Mycoplasma ovine/caprine serogroup 11 be reclassified as Mycoplasma bovigenitalium. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, Vol.58 (No.1). pp. 308-312. ISSN 1466-5026

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Abstract

This proposal is our response to the recommendation of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Mollicutes) that we 'write a proposal to classify Mycoplasma bovigenitalium and ovine/caprine serogroup 11 as a single species'. Physiological and phylogenetic comparisons between 27 strains of M. bovigenitalium and Mycoplasma serogroup 11 showed that (i) growth and patterns of organic acid substrate use completely overlapped among strains; (ii) all had lipase and phosphatase activities; (iii) the strains were indistinguishable in their SIDS-PAGE whole-cell protein profiles, which differed from five other species; (iv) strains were indistinguishable in immunoblotting of cell proteins and cross- reactivity in ELISA, but differed from other Mycoplasma species; (v) DNA-DNA hybridization did not distinguish between the two groups, and (vi) comparison of 16S and 23S rRNA gene sequences of ten strains of Mycoplasma serogroup 11 and six strains of M. bovigenitalium showed that they shared 98-100 % similarity across all strains tested, but only 86-95 % to other Mycoplasma species. Strains of the Mycoplasma ovine/caprine serogroup 11 must therefore be reassigned as Mycoplasma bovigenitalium.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	Q Science > QR Microbiology S Agriculture > SF Animal culture
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Life Sciences (2010- )
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Mycoplasmatales -- Classification, Mycoplasma diseases in animals
Journal or Publication Title:	International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
Publisher:	Society for General Microbiology
ISSN:	1466-5026
Date:	January 2008
Volume:	Vol.58
Number:	No.1
Number of Pages:	5
Page Range:	pp. 308-312
Identification Number:	10.1099/ijs.0.65553-0
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/30563

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