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Acholeplasma multilocale sp. nov., Isolated from a Horse and a Rabbit

¹Toxicology Unit, Medical Research Council Laboratories, Carshalton, Surrey SM5 4EF, United Kingdom
²National Institute of Public Health and Environment Protection, P.O. Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands

^* Corresponding author.

ABSTRACT

Acholeplasma strains were isolated from the nasopharynx of a horse (strain PN525^T [T = type strain]) and the feces of a rabbit (strain B1). One clone of strain PN525^T and one clone of strain B1 were examined in detail. These clones were indistinguishable from each other and were serologically distinct from the previously described Acholeplasma and Mycoplasma spp. The strains had the following properties: Guanine-plus-cytosine content of 31 mol%; sterol was not required for growth, which occurred under both aerobic and anaerobic conditions; glucose was metabolized; and arginine was hydrolyzed. Strain PN525 (= NCTC 11723) is the type strain of a new species, Acholeplasma multilocale.