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Recovery of Human Mycoplasmas from Simian Tissues

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FOUR laboratories have collaborated to isolate and identify mycoplasmas from the pharyngeal and lower urogenital tissues of the African green monkey. Seventy mycoplasmas were isolated from fifty-two of 142 specimens obtained from seventy-one monkeys. Most of the simian mycoplasmas isolated were similar or identical to Mycoplasma species previously isolated only from man.

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DELGIUDICE, R., CARSKI, T., BARILE, M. et al. Recovery of Human Mycoplasmas from Simian Tissues. Nature 222, 1088–1089 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2221088a0

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