Mycoplasma pirum

Mycoplasma pirum
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Firmicutes
Class: Mollicutes
Order: Mycoplasmatales
Family: Mycoplasmataceae
Genus: Mycoplasma
Species: M.  pirum
Binomial name
Mycoplasma pirum
Del Giudice et al. 1985

Mycoplasma pirum 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.

It has been isolated from those who immune systems are compromised.[3] It has been isolated from those being treated for HIV infection.[4] The type strain is HRC 70-159 = ATCC 25960 = NCTC 11702.[5] Its natural host is unknown.[6]

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. Pitcher, D. G. (2005). "Mycoplasma amphoriforme sp. nov., isolated from a patient with chronic bronchopneumonia". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 55 (6): 2589–2594. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.63269-0. ISSN 1466-5026.
  4. Berger, Stephen (2014). GIDEON guide to medically important bacteria. Los Angeles, California: GIDEON Informatics Inc. ISBN 9781617558412.
  5. Parte, A. C. "Mycoplasma". LPSN, bacterio.net. Retrieved 2015-04-20.
  6. Blanchard, Alain (2005). Mycoplasmas : molecular biology, pathogenicity and strategies for control. Wymondham: Horizon Bioscience. ISBN 978-0849398612.
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