| spiroplasma turonicum sp. nov. from haematopota horse flies (diptera: tabanidae) in france. | strain tab4ct, a helical prokaryote that was isolated from the body of a haematopota sp. fly collected in champchevrier, indre-et-loire, touraine, france, was found to be a member of the class mollicutes. the cells of strain tab4ct were small, motile helices that were devoid of a cell wall. the organism passed through filters with mean pore diameters as small as 0.20 mm. strain tab4ct grew rapidly in liquid sp-4 medium at both 30 and 37 degrees c. the organism fermented glucose but did not hydro ... | 1998 | 9731284 |