The recent sequencing of the entire genomes of Mycoplasma genitalium and M.
pneumoniae has attracted considerable attention to the molecular biology of mycoplasmas …

Medical microbiology is extremely reliant on the culture of bacteria from clinical specimens
and their subsequent identification by biochemical and phenotypic characteristics for the …

We amplified, TA-cloned, and sequenced the 16S–23S internal transcribed spacer (ITS)
regions from single isolates of several cyanobacterial species, Calothrix parietina …

A detection system that utilizes a primer mixture in a nested polymerase chain reaction for
detecting Mycoplasma contaminants in cell cultures is described. Primers were designed to …

Mycoplasma sp.(strain F38) is the causative agent of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia,
which is a goat disease of great global concern. Strain F38 belongs to the so-called" …

Mycoplasmas are distinguished phenotypically from other bacteria by their minute size and
total lack of a cell wall. Taxonomically, the lack of cell walls is used to separate …

Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola, which causes halo blight on various legumes, and
pv. actinidiae, responsible for canker or leaf spot on actinidia plants, are known as …

Ribosomes are present in all self-replicating cells and constitute their protein-synthesizing
machinery. The ribosomes are composed of ribosomal proteins and ribosomal RNA (rRNA) …

To develop a rapid and accurate method of typing large numbers of clinical isolates of
Staphylococcus aureus, the spacer region C of the rRNA operon [1391-507 (16S-23S)] was …

In this study, we describe our newly-developed sensitive two-stage PCR procedure for the
detection of 13 common mycoplasmal contaminants (M. arthritidis, M. bovis, M. fermentans …