Malacoplasma microti (DSM 19518, ATCC 700935, CCUG 53181)

Name: Malacoplasma microti (DSM 19518, ATCC 700935, CCUG 53181)
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BacDive ID 8626

Type strain

Strain Designation IL371

Culture col. no. DSM 19518 ATCC 700935 CCUG 53181 IL371

NCBI tax ID(s) 38746

Special Collections DSMZ CCUG

History DSMZ <- CCUG <- D. R. Brown; IL371

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Malacoplasma microti IL371 is an aerobe animal pathogen that was isolated from lung tissue from prairie voles .

aerobe animal pathogen 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 44215

ATCC 700935,CCUG 53181,DSM 19518

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:26:54

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Mycoplasmatota

Class Mollicutes

Order Mycoplasmoidales

Family Mycoplasmoidaceae

Genus Malacoplasma

Species Malacoplasma microti

Full scientific name Malacoplasma microti (Brown et al. 2001) Gupta et al. 2018

Synonyms (1)

Mycoplasma microti

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
8144	SP4-Z MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1076b)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: SP4-Z MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1076b) Composition: Agar 10.0 g/l Tryptone 10.0 g/l Bacto peptone 5.0 g/l PPLO broth 3.5 g/l Urea 2.0 g/l Glucose 1.0 g/l None 1.0 g/l Yeast extract 0.4 g/l DNA 0.2 g/l CMRL 1066 Fetal bovine serum Swine serum Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
8144	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

8144

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Mammals	#Rodentia (Other)
#Host Body-Site	#Oral cavity and airways	#Lung

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
8144	lung tissue from prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster)	Microtus ochrogaster	Florida	USA	USA	North America
59823	Prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster)		Florida	USA	USA	North America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AF212859 (>99% sequence identity) for Mycoplasma microti subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	15
Soil Samples	13
Animal Samples	506
Plant Samples	1
Total Samples	535

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Pathogenicity animal	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
8144		2	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Mycoplasma microti strain ATCC 700935 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence; 16S-23S ribosomal RNA intergenic spacer, complete sequence; and 23S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY755605	849		38746
8144	Mycoplasma microti 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF212859	1435		38746

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Mycoplasma microti sp. nov., isolated from the respiratory tract of prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster).	Brown DR, Talkington DF, Thacker WL, Brown MB, Dillehay DL, Tully JG	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/00207713-51-2-409	2001

References

#8144	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 19518
#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#59823	Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG) ; Curators of the CCUG; CCUG 53181
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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Malacoplasma microti (DSM 19518, ATCC 700935, CCUG 53181)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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