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Mycoplasma testudineum sp. nov., from a desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) with upper respiratory tract disease

Published:2004-09-01 Issue:5 Volume:54 Page:1527-1529
ISSN:1466-5026
Container-title:International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
language:en
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Author:

Brown D. R.¹,Merritt J. L.¹,Jacobson E. R.²,Klein P. A.³,Tully J. G.⁴,Brown M. B.¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA

2. Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA

3. Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA

4. Mycoplasma Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Frederick, MD 21702, USA

Abstract

Mycoplasma testudineum sp. nov., first cultured from the upper respiratory tract of a clinically ill tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) in the Mohave Desert, was distinguished from previously described mollicutes serologically and by 16S rRNA gene sequence comparisons. It lacks a cell wall; ferments glucose, mannose, lactose and sucrose; does not produce ‘film and spots’; does not hydrolyse arginine, aesculin or urea; is sensitive to digitonin; and lacks phosphatase activity. The organism causes chronic rhinitis and conjunctivitis of tortoises. The type strain of M. testudineum is BH29T (=ATCC 700618T=MCCM 03231T).

Publisher

Microbiology Society

Subject

General Medicine,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics,Microbiology

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