TABLE 1.
Taxonomy of the Mycoplasma mycoides cluster
| Taxonomic grouping1987 taxonomya | Mycoides subcluster |
Capricolum subcluster |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. capri | Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides LC | Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides SC | Mycoplasma sp. group 7 | Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capricolum | Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capripneumoniae | |
| Current taxonomyb | Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. capri | Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides | M. leachii | Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capricolum | Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capripneumoniae | |
| Serovar | Capri | LC | ||||
| Type/reference strain | PG3 | YG | PG1 | PG50 | C.kid | F38 |