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Volume 43, Issue 3

DNA Relatedness between Field Isolates of Mycoplasma F38 Group, the Agent of Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia, and Strains of Free

Abstract

DNA-DNA hybridization experiments were carried out in order to clarify the taxonomic relationships between the F38 group of caprine mycoplasmas, the established etiologic agents of classical contagious caprine pleuropneumonia, and , an organism associated with septicemia, arthritis, and mastitis in goats and sheep. The taxonomic status of the F38 group has been uncertain, principally because of the serological, genomic, and other properties which it shares with . Tritium-labeled DNAs from the type strain (California kid) and from prototype strain F38 were hybridized with unlabeled DNAs from these two strains and from four other isolates belonging to each group. The results showed consistent DNA relatedness values of about 70% between the F38 and groups, compared with levels of relatedness of about 90 and 85%, respectively, for the strains within each group. In addition, the results of comparisons of these 10 strains in which growth inhibition and immunofluorescence tests were used confirmed the previously reported serological relationships between the two groups and reinforced other observations concerning their shared genomic and cell membrane characteristics, indicating that there is a close taxonomic relationship. However, as the 70% DNA relatedness values between the and F38 groups also indicate a degree of genomic difference inconsistent with a relationship at the species level, we conclude that our findings support previous proposals for classification of the F38 group as a subspecies of . In view of the prospective diagnostic problems, particularly those arising from the serological similarities of two putative subspecies, we believe that further studies should be performed to define additional phenotypic and genotypic properties that would allow more rapid and specific differentiation of the F38 group mycoplasmas.

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DNA Relatedness between Field Isolates of Mycoplasma F38 Group, the Agent of Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia, and Strains of Mycoplasma capricolum
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