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Species Mycoplasma cottewii

Name: Mycoplasma cottewii Da Massa et al. 1994

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: N.L. gen. masc. n. cottewii, of Cottew, named for G.S. Cottew, an Australian veterinarian who was a co-isolator of the organism

Gender: neuter

Type strains: ATCC 51347; CIP 105678; DSM 22020; NCTC 11732; VIS

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16S rRNA gene: JN935874 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: DaMassa AJ, Tully JG, Rose DL, Pitcher D, Leach RH, Cottew GS. Mycoplasma auris sp. nov., Mycoplasma cottewii sp. nov., and Mycoplasma yeatsii sp. nov., new sterol-requiring mollicutes from the external ear canals of goats. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1994; 44:479-484.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 44, part 3 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1994; 44:853.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Mycoplasma Nowak 1929 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: DaMassa AJ, Tully JG, Rose DL, Pitcher D, Leach RH, Cottew GS. Mycoplasma auris sp. nov., Mycoplasma cottewii sp. nov., and Mycoplasma yeatsii sp. nov., new sterol-requiring mollicutes from the external ear canals of goats. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1994; 44:479-484.

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