Survival of mycoplasma, acholeplasma and spiroplasma at different temperatures.

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In order to determine the maintenance of viability of Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Mycoplasma salivarium, Acholeplasma laidlawii, Acholeplasma granularum, and Spiroplasma mirum, SMCA strain, outside the human and animal bodies and plant tissues, these mycoplasmal cells were kept in two kinds of solutions and at different temperatures, and their survival periods were measured. The results obtained indicate that, in general, except for M, sali-varium, a solution containing a high concentration of protein, i. e. horse serum and albumin, is more suitable than a solution containing horse serum only for maintaining viability, and that a low temperature is better than a high tem-perature, as expected. In the results obtained here, the survival periods of M. pneumoniae, M. salivarium, A. laidlawii, A. granularum and S. mirum SMCA in phosphate buffered saline containing 1% horse serum and 0.1% bovine serum albumin V (PBS, HS, BSA) were approximately 80, 30, 230, 200 and 100 days, respectively.
久留米大学医学部 The Kurume Medical Journal 編集部の論文