Abstract
A total of 217 Mycoplasma bovis isolates cultured from clinical cases in Ontario, Canada, over the past 30 y were selected to be characterized by a multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) method. Eleven housekeeping genes were evaluated for suitability for MLST; 2 loci that had been used in prior MLST schemes, dnaN and metS, along with hsp70 were chosen for further sequence analysis. The remaining loci- adk, efp, gmk, gyrB, polC, rpoB, tpiA, and uvrC genes-were not used because they had little to no sequence variation. The sequence data from the chosen loci ( dnaN, hsp70, metS) generated 28 sequence types (STs), with the 3 loci having 15, 5, and 7 alleles, respectively. These molecular typing results revealed that the STs had a temporal distribution; over the course of 3 decades, some STs disappeared and new STs appeared. Recent isolates had a greater variety of STs, which may indicate that new strains are emerging more rapidly now than in the past.
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