Mycoplasma agassizii

Mycoplasma agassizii
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Firmicutes
Class: Mollicutes
Order: Mycoplasmatales
Family: Mycoplasmataceae
Genus: Mycoplasma
Species: M. agassizii
Binomial name
Mycoplasma agassizii
Brown et al. 2001

Mycoplasma agassizii is a species of bacteria in the genus Mycoplasma. This genus of bacteria lacks a cell wall around their cell membrane.[1] Without a cell wall, they are unaffected by many common antibiotics such as penicillin or other beta-lactam antibiotics that target cell wall synthesis. Mycoplasma are the smallest bacterial cells yet discovered,[2] can survive without oxygen and are typically about 0. 1  µm in diameter.

Cultures are available from the Mollicutes Culture Collection (Curators Dr. J.K. Davis and M.K. Davidson, University of Florida).[3]

This mycoplasma species was originally isolated from a species of desert tortoise Gopherus agassizii which was named for by Louis Agassiz.[3][4]

Since its discovery, it has been recovered from other species of tortoises:


The type strain is PS6 = ATCC 700616 = CCUG 53180 and available from the Mollicutes Culture Collection, University of Florida.[3]

References

  1. Ryan KJ, Ray CG (editors) (2004). Sherris Medical Microbiology (4th ed.). McGraw Hill. pp. 409–12. ISBN 0-8385-8529-9.
  2. Richard L. Sweet, Ronald S. Gibbs. Infectious Diseases of the Female Genital Tract. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2009.
  3. 1 2 3 Parte, A. C. "Mycoplasma". LPSN, bacterio.net. Retrieved 2015-04-20.
  4. 1 2 Brown, M. B,; Brown, D. R,; Klein, P. A.; McLaughin, G. S.; Schumacher, I. M.; Jacobson, E. R.; Adams, H. P.; Tully, J. G. (2001). "Mycoplasma agassizii sp. nov., isolated from the upper respiratory tracct of the desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizzii) and the gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus)". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 51: 413–418. doi:10.1099/00207713-51-2-413. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
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