PMID- 16293373
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20060504
LR  - 20061115
IS  - 0378-1135 (Print)
IS  - 0378-1135 (Linking)
VI  - 112
IP  - 1
DP  - 2006 Jan 10
TI  - Isolation of Mycoplasma capricolum-like strains from chickens.
PG  - 23-31
AB  - Members of the genus Mycoplasma infect a wide range of hosts, but individual 
      Mycoplasma species tend to exhibit a considerable degree of host specificity. We 
      characterized Mycoplasma strain 700, isolated from a kidney of a layer hen in 
      Spain and Mycoplasma strains ULB-A and ULB-B, isolated from the air sac and from 
      the bile of stunted broiler chickens in Slovenia. The serologic examination 
      showed that these three strains are antigenically unrelated to all of the 
      recognized Mycoplasma species of avian origin, but closely related to the 
      ruminant mycoplasma Mycoplasma capricolum subspecies capricolum (M. capricolum). 
      The comparison of their 16S rRNA gene sequences with the sequence of M. 
      capricolum (California kid) revealed 99.66% sequence identity for the strain 700 
      and 99.59% identity for strains ULB-A and ULB-B. Moreover, the predicted DnaK 
      sequences of the M. capricolum-like strains, isolated from chickens, were 
      identical to DnaK sequences of M. capricolum. Comparison of their dnaK gene 
      sequences with M. capricolum showed 99.64% sequence identity for strain 700 and 
      99.27% identity for strains ULB-A and ULB-B. In the flock from which M. 
      capricolum-like strains ULB-A and ULB-B were isolated, the majority of chickens 
      (83% of the chickens examined) raised antibodies reacting with M. capricolum 
      antigens. Notably, the infection of chickens with M. capricolum-like strains 
      represents an unusual exception to the range of Mycoplasma species host 
      specificity.
FAU - Bencina, Dusan
AU  - Bencina D
AD  - Department of Animal Science, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, 1230 
      Domzale, Slovenia. dusan.bencina@bfro.uni-lj.si
FAU - Bradbury, Janet M
AU  - Bradbury JM
FAU - Stipkovits, Laszlo
AU  - Stipkovits L
FAU - Varga, Zsuzsana
AU  - Varga Z
FAU - Razpet, Andrej
AU  - Razpet A
FAU - Bidovec, Andrej
AU  - Bidovec A
FAU - Dovc, Peter
AU  - Dovc P
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20051115
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Vet Microbiol
JT  - Veterinary microbiology
JID - 7705469
RN  - 0 (Antibodies, Bacterial)
RN  - 0 (RNA, Ribosomal, 16S)
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Antibodies, Bacterial/blood
MH  - Base Sequence
MH  - *Chickens
MH  - Female
MH  - Genes, Bacterial
MH  - Male
MH  - Molecular Sequence Data
MH  - Mycoplasma capricolum/classification/genetics/*isolation & purification
MH  - Operon
MH  - Phylogeny
MH  - Pleuropneumonia, Contagious/*microbiology
MH  - Poultry Diseases/*microbiology
MH  - RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/analysis/*genetics
MH  - Sequence Analysis, DNA
MH  - Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
MH  - Serologic Tests/veterinary
MH  - Species Specificity
EDAT- 2005/11/19 09:00
MHDA- 2006/05/05 09:00
CRDT- 2005/11/19 09:00
PHST- 2005/01/18 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2005/09/21 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2005/10/03 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2005/11/19 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2006/05/05 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2005/11/19 09:00 [entrez]
AID - S0378-1135(05)00312-3 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.vetmic.2005.10.001 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Vet Microbiol. 2006 Jan 10;112(1):23-31. doi: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2005.10.001. Epub 
      2005 Nov 15.