An approach to characterizing uncultivated prokaryotes: The Grey Lung agent and proposal of a Candidatus taxon for the organism, 'Candidatus Mycoplasma ravipulmonis'

International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 389-394

  Neimark, Harold ^a   Mitchelmore, Deborah ^b   Leach, Ronald H ^b,c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Candidatus Mycoplasma ravipulmonis'; Grey Lung disease

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MOUSE; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS; CANDIDATUS MYCOPLASMA RAVIPULMONIS; MYCOPLASMA PULMONIS; MYCOPLASMA SP.; MYCOPLASMATALES; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0031778522     PISSN: 00207713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00207713-48-2-389     Document Type: Article

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