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What (who) is mycoplasma - definition


Mycoplasma         
  • Colony morphology of Mycoplasma on Hayflick agar
GENUS OF BACTERIA
Mycoplasmosis; Mycoplasma infections; Mycoplasmas; PPLO; Mycoplasm; Mycoplasms; Protit; Eperythrozoon; Mycoplasma infection; Pleuropneumonia-like organism
Mycoplasma is a genus of bacteria that, like the other members of the class Mollicutes, lack a cell wall around their cell membranes. Peptidoglycan (murein) is absent.
mycoplasma         
  • Colony morphology of Mycoplasma on Hayflick agar
GENUS OF BACTERIA
Mycoplasmosis; Mycoplasma infections; Mycoplasmas; PPLO; Mycoplasm; Mycoplasms; Protit; Eperythrozoon; Mycoplasma infection; Pleuropneumonia-like organism
[?m??k?(?)'plazm?]
¦ noun (plural mycoplasmas or mycoplasmata -m?t?) a submicroscopic, typically parasitic bacterium lacking cell walls. [Order Mycoplasmatales.]
Mycoplasma pneumoniae         
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SPECIES OF BACTERIUM
M.pneumoniae; M. pneumoniae; Mycoplasmal infection; Pneumonia, mycoplasma; Eaton agent; Eaton's agent; Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection
Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a very small bacterium in the class Mollicutes. It is a human pathogen that causes the disease mycoplasma pneumonia, a form of atypical bacterial pneumonia related to cold agglutinin disease.
Examples of use of mycoplasma
1. Last June, the team announced that it had managed to change one species of bacterium called Mycoplasma capricolum into another, Mycoplasma mycoides, by replacing one genome with another.
2. Now this artificial chromosome, Mycoplasma laboratorium, is to be transplanted into a living bacterial cell.
3. Of these, 143 were infected both with chlamydia and another common sexually–transmitted infection, mycoplasma.
4. They believe telithromycin‘s effects may be as a result of its action on the bacteria Chlamydophilia pneumoniae and Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
5. The bug, Mycoplasma genitalium, has the smallest known genetic make–up of any truly living organism, with 485 working genes.