Mycoplasma insons sp. nov., a twisted mycoplasma from green iguanas (Iguana iguana)

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 274, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 298-303

  May, Meghan ^a   Ortiz, G Javier ^a   Wendland, Lori D ^a   Rotstein, David S ^b   Relich, Ryan F ^c   Balish, Mitchell F ^c   Brown, Daniel R ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fastidiosum cluster; Hemotropic; Mollicutes; Mycoplasma; Novel species; Twisted morphology

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOOD CELL; CELL WALL; GENE SEQUENCE; GROWTH INHIBITION; MORPHOLOGY; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY;

ANIMALS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; IGUANAS; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

IGUANA IGUANA; IGUANIA; MOLLICUTES; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA FASTIDIOSUM; MYCOPLASMATALES;

EID: 34547876463     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00847.x     Document Type: Article

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