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Mycoplasma microti sp. nov., isolated from the respiratory tract of prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster)

Brown, DR, Talkington, DF, Thacker, WL, Brown, MB, Dillehay, DL, Tully, JG

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2001; 51(2):409

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Abstract

Mycoplasmas were isolated from the respiratory tracts of prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster). This paper presents biochemical, serological and molecular genetic characterizations of those organisms and proposes a new species, Mycoplasma microti sp. nov. The type strain of Mycoplasma microti is strain IL371(T) (ATCC 700935(T)).