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THE isolation of a new mycoplasma species, Mycoplasma caviae, was recorded recently1. This species has been isolated from the nasopharynx and vagina of 10% of 232 guinea-pigs and is apparently non-pathogenic to these and other common laboratory animals. During this survey, no other known species of mycoplasma were isolated. (A strain of M. caviae G. 122 has been lodged in the National Collection of Type Cultures and has been given the reference number NC/TC 10126.)
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HILL, A. Incidence of Mycoplasma Infection in Guinea-pigs. Nature 232, 560 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/232560a0
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