Candidatus Mycoplasma aoti
(Barker et al., 2011)
Etymology
Gr. n. mukes – fungus, Gr. neut. n. plasma – formed, N.L. neut. n. Mycoplasma – fungus form; N.L. gen. n. aoti – of a night monkey of genus Aotus
Taxonomy
Mycoplasmatales – Mycoplasmataceae – Mycoplasma – Candidatus Mycoplasma aoti (Hemoplasma cluster, Eperythrozoon subcluster), related to Candidatus Mycoplasma kahaneii (phylogenetic position not shown since only a short 16S rRNA gene sequence has been provided)
Type strain
not available, not cultivated in/on cell free media
Genomes
no genome published (per 11/05/2024)
Cell morphology
spherical – coccoid
Colony morphology
not cultivated on a cell free medium
Metabolism
not assessed
Host
northern night monkey (Aotus trivirgatus)
Habitat
blood
Disease(s)
unknown
Pathogenicity
factors unknown
Epidemiology
unknown, once detected in an archived blood smear of a northern night monkey imported to the UK from Colombia in the late 1960s, splenectomised and experimentally infected with Pasmodium falciparum
Diagnosis
PCR