Molecular cloning and characterization of a surface-localized adhesion protein in Mycoplasma bovis Hubei-1 strain.
Mycoplasma bovis (M.bovis) is an important pathogen that causes here various bovine diseases, such as mastitis in cows and pneumonia in calves.The surface proteins are generally thought to play a central role in the pathogenesis of this organism.We screened the entire genome of M.bovis Hubei-1 and discovered a gene named vpmaX that encodes the 25 k