'Candidatus Mycoplasma haemobos', a new bovine haemotrophic Mycoplasma species?

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 144, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 525-526

  Hoelzle, Katharina ^a   Hofmann Lehmann, Regina ^a   Hoelzle, Ludwig E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Candidatus Mycoplasma haemobos; Cattle; Eperythrozoon teganodes; Eperythrozoon tuomii; Haemobartonella bovis; Mycoplasma wenyonii

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S;

BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CANDIDATUS MYCOPLASMA HAEMOBOVIS; COW; DNA DETERMINATION; ERYTHROCYTE; HYPODERMA BOVIS; LETTER; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA HAEMOFELIS; MYCOPLASMA WENYONII; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THROMBOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS;

BOS; BOVINAE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA WENYONII;

EID: 77955586657     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2010.04.023     Document Type: Letter

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