Global InformationMycoplasma gallisepticum information
| Mycoplasma gallisepticum | |
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| Electron micrograph of Mycoplasma gallisepticum, scale bar 140 nm | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Mycoplasmatota |
| Class: | Mollicutes |
| Order: | Mycoplasmatales |
| Family: | Mycoplasmataceae |
| Genus: | Mycoplasma |
| Species: | M. gallisepticum
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| Binomial name | |
| Mycoplasma gallisepticum Edward and Kanarek 1960 (Approved Lists 1980)
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Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) is a bacterium in the class Mollicutes and the family Mycoplasmataceae. It causes chronic respiratory disease (CRD) in chickens and infectious sinusitis in turkeys, chickens, game birds, pigeons, and passerine birds of all ages.[1][2] Mycoplasma gallisepticum is a significant pathogen in poultry.
Mycoplasmosis is the disease caused by infection with mycoplasmas. Mycoplasmas have many defining characteristics. Mycoplasma lack cell walls, have highly variable surface proteins and a distinctive plasma membrane, and are the smallest self-replicating prokaryotes. Mycoplasmas can cause disease in humans, animals, insects, and plants.[3] Mycoplasmas attach to host epithelial cells, such as in the respiratory tract, causing cell damage and an inflammatory response. There are currently over 100 species of mycoplasmas known. The following have been isolated from wild birds: Mycoplasma buteonis, Mycoplasma corogypsi, Mycoplasma falconis, Mycoplasma gypis, Mycoplasma sturni, and Mycoplasma gallisepticum.[4] M. gallisepticum has the most significant effect on wild birds.[3]
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- ^ Hennigana, Suzanne L.; Jeremy D. Driskellb; Naola Ferguson-Noelc; Richard A. Dluhyd; Yiping Zhaoe; Ralph A. Trippb; Duncan C. Krausea (30 December 2011). "Detection and Differentiation of Avian Mycoplasmas by Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Based on a Silver Nanorod Array". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 78 (6): 1930–1935. doi:10.1128/AEM.07419-11. PMC 3298138. PMID 22210215.
- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey [USGS]. (1999). Field Manual of Wildlife Diseases: General Field Procedures and Disease of Birds. Biological Resources Division Information and Technology Report 1999–2001.
- ^ Thomas, NJ; Hunter, DB and Atkinson, CT (2007). Infectious Diseases of Wild Birds. Blackwell Publishing, Ames, Iowa, USA.