Species of bacterium
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Mycoplasma capricolum is a species of "Mycoplasma" bacteria. It is primarily a pathogen of goats, but has also been found in sheep and cows. The species requires external sources of cholesterol to grow or survive (which usually comes in the form of a natural fatty acid auxotroph), but the uptaken fatty acid is not used as a substrate for energy production but rather for phospholipid synthesis instead.
It (specifically the "capripneumoniae" subspecies) causes a disease in goats called contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (CCPP).
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