Proposal of Ureaplasma parvum sp. nov. and emended description of Ureaplasma urealyticum (Shepard et al. 1974) Robertson et al. 2001

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 587-597

  Robertson, Janet A ^a   Stemke, Gerald W ^a   Davis Jr , John W ^a   Harasawa, Ryô ^a   Thirkell, David ^a   Kong, Fanrong ^a   Shepard, Maurice C ^a   Ford, Denys K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biovars; Genotyping; Phenotyping; Ureaplasma parvum; Ureaplasma urealyticum

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DIAPHORASES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A1; INORGANIC PYROPHOSPHATASE; MANGANESE; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEINASE; RNA 16S; RNA 23S; SPACER DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ECONOMIC ASPECT; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZE; GENOTYPE; HOST; MOLLICUTES; MYCOPLASMATACEAE; MYCOPLASMATALES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RELIABILITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROTYPE; TAXONOMY; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA PARVUM; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MOLLICUTES; MYCOPLASMATACEAE; MYCOPLASMATALES; NEGIBACTERIA; UREAPLASMA; UREAPLASMA PARVUM; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

EID: 0036204151     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00207713-52-2-587     Document Type: Article

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