Multiple choice

Who among the following isolated mycoplasma species for the first time?

  1. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  2. Nocard and Roux

  3. D. Iwanowsky

  4. Joseph Lister

  5. Kiyoshi Shigo

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B Correct answer
Explanation

In 1898, Nocard and Roux reported the cultivation of the causative agent of CBPP, which was at that time a grave and widespread disease in cattle herds. The disease is caused by M. mycoides subsp. mycoides SC (small-colony type) and the work of Nocard and Roux represented the first isolation of a mycoplasma species.