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A Galactan from Mycoplasma mycoides

Nature volume 182, pages 1236–1237 (1958)Cite this article

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LITTLE is known of the carbohydrates of Mycoplasma mycoides var. mycoides, the organism responsible for bovine contagious pleuropneumonia. (This is the nomenclature usod by R. S. Breed, E. G. D. Murray and N. R. Smith in the seventh edition of “Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology”, p. 1. (Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1957). We use the abbreviation M. mycoides in what follows. The organism has been widely known in the past as Asterococcus mycoides.) Kurotchkin1, however, was able to isolate a serologically active fraction which gave positive Molisch and negative biuret reactions. We have examined the strain (V5) of M. mycoides used in this laboratory for the preparation of bovine contagious pleuropneumonia vaccine, with the object of obtaining material which might be of value in immunological studies.

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  1. Division of Animal Health and Production, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Animal Health Research Laboratory, Parkville, N.2, Victoria, Australia

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PLACKETT, P., BUTTERY, S. A Galactan from Mycoplasma mycoides. Nature 182, 1236–1237 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1821236a0

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