Phylogenetic analysis and description of Eperythrozoon coccoides, proposal to transfer to the genus Mycoplasma as Mycoplasma coccoides comb. nov. and request for an opinion

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1385-1391

  Neimark, Harold ^a   Peters, Wallace ^b   Robinson, Brian L ^b   Stewart, Lindsay B ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NORTHWICK PARK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; EPERYTHROZOON COCCOIDES; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE SEQUENCE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA COCCOIDES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITEMIA; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPLENOMEGALY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TERMINOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA COCCOIDES; MYCOPLASMATALES; PROKARYOTA; RICKETTSIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 19644365110     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.63437-0     Document Type: Article

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