Mycoplasma lipophilum sp. nov.

Two Mycoplasma strains isolated from the human oral cavity exhibit cultural and serological properties distinguishing them from the known human Mycoplasma species. Further, a variety of cultural and serological procedures fail to identify the strains with any of a wide range of Mycoplasmatales tested. The strains are described as a new species under the name Mycoplasma lipophilum previously referred to as (M. lipophilia) of the family Mycoplasmataceae. The type strain is MaBy (=ATCC 27104).