Mycoplasma capricolum

{{Short description|Species of bacterium}}

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| species = capricolum

| authority = Tully et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

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Mycoplasma capricolum is a species of Mycoplasma bacteria. It is primarily a pathogen of goats, but has also been found in sheep and cows.[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/genomes/bacteria/Mycoplasma_capricolum.html Mycoplasma capricolum causes caprine pneumonia] The species requires external sources of cholesterol to grow or survive (which usually comes in the form of a natural fatty acid auxotroph), but the uptaken fatty acid is not used as a substrate for energy production but rather for phospholipid synthesis instead.{{Cite journal|last1=SETO|first1=S|last2=MURATA|first2=S|last3=MIYATA|first3=M|date=1997-05-15|title=Characterization of gene expression in|url=https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00121-3|journal=FEMS Microbiology Letters|volume=150|issue=2|pages=239–247|doi=10.1016/s0378-1097(97)00121-3|pmid=9170268|issn=0378-1097|url-access=subscription}}

It (specifically the capripneumoniae subspecies){{cite journal |last1=Soayfane |first1=Z |last2=Houshaymi |first2=B |last3=Nicholas |first3=RAJ |title=Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capripneumoniae, the cause of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia, comprises two distinct biochemical groups. |journal=Open Veterinary Journal |date=2018 |volume=8 |issue=4 |pages=393–400 |doi=10.4314/ovj.v8i4.7 |pmid=30538929|pmc=6243207 }} causes a disease in goats called contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (CCPP).{{cite journal|last1=Dupuy|first1=V|last2=Verdier|first2=A|last3=Thiaucourt|first3=F|last4=Manso-Silván|first4=L|date=6 July 2015|title=A large-scale genomic approach affords unprecedented resolution for the molecular epidemiology and evolutionary history of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia.|journal=Veterinary Research|volume=46|issue=1|pages=74|doi=10.1186/s13567-015-0208-x|pmc=4492101|pmid=26149260|doi-access=free}}