Article
A study of the heterogeneity of isolates of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae from sheep in New Zealand.
Veterinary microbiology - 1 Nov 1991
Ionas G, Norman N G, Clarke J K, Marshall R B
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the heterogeneity of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae, sixty isolates from three sheep on each of twenty farms were examined by restriction endonuclease analysis (REA) and SDS-PAGE. All were found to be different except for three isolates obtained from one farm. The protein and REA patterns of individual isolates were both highly reproducible and remained unchanged following long term passage...
Topics
- Animals
- Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
- Bacterial Proteins
- DNA, Bacterial
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
- Genetic Variation
- Mycoplasma
- Mycoplasma Infections
- New Zealand
- Plasmids
- Reproducibility of Results
