| 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 |
| an australian environmental survey reveals moderate spiroplasma biodiversity: characterization of four new serogroups and a continental variant. | an environmental survey of tabanid host spiroplasma carriage was undertaken at 10 collection sites in australia during february 1999. a total of 164 tabanid flies, representing 27 species, were collected and sustainable spiroplasma isolations were made from 48 of the flies. the morphology of the cultured spiroplasmas, as observed in m1d medium under dark-field microscopy, was typical of either (i) apis group spiroplasmas (relatively thick cells (approximately 150 nm) with six or more turns) or ( ... | 2009 | 20029526 |
| first human systemic infection caused by spiroplasma. | spiroplasma species are organisms that normally colonize plants and insects. we describe the first case of human systemic infection caused by spiroplasma bacteria in a patient with hypogammaglobulinemia undergoing treatment with biological disease-modifying antirheumatic agents. spiroplasma turonicum was identified through molecular methods in several blood cultures. the infection was successfully treated with doxycycline plus levofloxacin. | 2014 | 25428150 |
| complete genome sequence of spiroplasma turonicum tab4ct, a bacterium isolated from horse flies (haematopota sp.). | spiroplasma turonicum tab4c(t) was isolated from a horse fly (haematopota sp.; probably haematopota pluvialis) collected at champchevrier, indre-et-loire, touraine, france, in 1991. here, we report the complete genome sequence of this bacterium to facilitate the investigation of its biology and the comparative genomics among spiroplasma spp. | 2016 | 27660788 |
| complete genome sequence of spiroplasma turonicum strain tab4ct, a parasite of a horse fly, haematopota sp. (diptera: tabanidae). | spiroplasma turonicum was isolated from a haematopota sp. fly in france. we report the nucleotide sequence of the circular chromosome of strain tab4c(t). the genome information will facilitate evolutionary studies of spiroplasmas, including symbionts of insects and ticks and pathogens of plants, insects, crustaceans, and humans. | 2015 | 26586899 |