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Identification and Differentiation of European and African/Australian Strains of Mycoplasma Mycoides Subspecies Mycoides Small-Colony type Using Polymerase Chain Reaction Analysis
Mycoplasma mycoides subspecies mycoides small-colony type (M. m. m. SC) is the cause of the economically important contagious bovine pleuropneumonia. Isolates from Africa and Australia have previously been documented to have a fragment of approximately 8.84 kb, which is absent in European strains. A set of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers over this region was designed to identify M. m. m. SC isolates and separate European strains from those of Africa/Australia. Specificity of the PCR assay was achieved through the positioning of an oligonucleotide within the insertion sequence IS1296, upstream of this deletion, which then was paired with a reverse primer, upstream of the deletion, within the 8.84 kb-deleted region or downstream of the deletion, generating fragments of 1.1 kb (all M. m. m. SC strains), 1.4 kb (African/Australian strains only) and 1.3 kb (European strains only), respectively. Identification and differentiation was specific for DNA from M. m. m. SC with no amplification of DNA from other cluster members or closely related species. The PCR products did not require differentiation by use of a restriction endonuclease, and have potential for use in detection of this organism in clinical samples.
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