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Isolation of a Mycoplasma sp. (Group 7) Previously Associated with Cattle from Guinea Pigs’Genital Tracts
Author(s) -
RIGBY CHARLOTTE,
LANGFORD E. V.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
journal of applied bacteriology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.889
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1365-2672
pISSN - 0021-8847
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2672.1976.tb00622.x
Subject(s) - mycoplasma , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , guinea pig , isolation (microbiology) , sex organ , persistence (discontinuity) , incidence (geometry) , virology , veterinary medicine , medicine , endocrinology , genetics , physics , geotechnical engineering , engineering , optics
The incidence and persistence of genital mycoplasmas of 25 normal guinea pigs were investigated by culturing swabs collected over a 63‐day period. Mycoplasmas were consistently isolated from two of the five males, but only once each from three of the 20 females. The 16 strains isolated were divided into four groups. Representative strains of one group were identified as Mycoplasma sp. (group 7 of Leach 1973), by growth inhibition, growth precipitation and fluorescent antibody tests. The other groups were provisionally classified as Mycoplasma spp. and an Acholeplasma sp.