Title :
A Novel Hemoplasma Species Confirmed in Swine Reveals the Possibility of Interspecies Transmission of Mycoplasma wenyonii
Author :
Yuan Congli ; Zhu Ningyu ; Yang Zhibiao ; Zheng Shengbo ; Cui Li ; Zhu Jianguo ; Hua Xiuguo ; Yang Xiaowei ; Wen Ming ; Wang Jiafu
Author_Institution :
Shanghai Key Lab. of Veterinary Med., Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
Abstract: A pig from a commercial pig farm was confirmed to be infected with hemoplasma by microscopic examination in Shanghai, China. However, PCR assay was always negative by using primers that specific of Mycoplasma suis. Therefore, primers that amplified the conserved region of 16S rDNA gene were designed. Phylogenic tree was constructed based on the resulting 16S rDNA sequence, which showed the present hemoplamsa strain is highly similar with Mycoplasma wenyonii (M. wenyonii). This is the first report describing the infection of M. wenyonii in swine blood, which indicated the occurrence of interspecies transmission of hemoplasma is more frequent than our previous thought.
Keywords :
blood; microorganisms; veterinary medicine; zoology; 16S rDNA gene; China; Mycoplasma suis; Mycoplasma wenyonii; PCR assay; Shanghai; infection; interspecies transmission; microscopic examination; novel hemoplasma species; phylogenic tree; swine blood; Animals; Blood; DNA; Diseases; Electrons; Ethanol; Humans; Microscopy; Plasma temperature; Sequences;
Conference_Titel :
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE), 2010 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4712-1
Electronic_ISBN :
2151-7614
DOI :
10.1109/ICBBE.2010.5515331
