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Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 56 (2006), 761-764; DOI  10.1099/ijs.0.63852-0
© 2006 International Union of Microbiological Societies

Mycoplasma iguanae sp. nov., from a green iguana (Iguana iguana) with vertebral disease

D. R. Brown1, D. L. Demcovitz1, D. R. Plourdé1, S. M. Potter1, M. E. Hunt1, R. D. Jones2 and D. S. Rotstein2

1 Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-0880, USA
2 Department of Pathobiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-4542, USA

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D. R. Brown
brownd{at}mail.vetmed.ufl.edu

Strain 2327T, first cultured from vertebral abscesses of green iguanas (Iguana iguana) collected in Florida, USA, was readily distinguished from all previously described mollicutes by 16S rRNA gene sequence comparisons. Strain 2327T lacks a cell wall, ferments glucose, does not hydrolyse arginine, aesculin or urea and is sensitive to digitonin. Western blots distinguished the novel isolate serologically from the most closely related members of the Mycoplasma neurolyticum cluster. On the basis of these data, the isolate represents a novel species for which the name Mycoplasma iguanae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is strain 2327T (=ATCC BAA-1050T=NCTC 11745T).

Published online ahead of print on 25 November 2005 as DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.63852-0.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain 2327T is AY714305.

A transmission electron micrograph of cells of M. iguanae sp. nov. and figures demonstrating total protein patterns of the novel strains after SDS-PAGE and immunogen patterns of the strains on a Western blot are available as supplementary material in IJSEM Online.




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