Mycoplasma spumans
| Mycoplasma spumans | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Firmicutes |
| Class: | Mollicutes |
| Order: | Mycoplasmatales |
| Family: | Mycoplasmataceae |
| Genus: | Mycoplasma |
| Species: | M. spumans |
| Binomial name | |
| Mycoplasma Edward 1955 | |
| Synonyms | |
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"Asterococcus spumans" (Edward 1955) Prévot 1961. | |
Mycoplasma spumans 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, pathogenic species in this genus are unaffected by many 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.
The etymology of the name of the species comes from the Latiny: L. part. adj. spumans, foaming, presumably alluding to thick dark markings that suggest the presence of globules inside the coarsely reticulated colonies. The type strain is ATCC 19526 = IFO (now NBRC) 14849 = NCTC 10169.Its genome has been determined.[3]
It is associated with respiratory infections in dogs.[4]M. spumans is gram negative and appears round or coccobacillary in form. Individual cells vary in diameter from 300 to 600 nm, and each is surrounded by a three-layered cytoplasmic membrane. The cell has a ‘fried-egg’ resemblance on a variety of growth media. It is anaerobic.
References
- ↑ Ryan KJ, Ray CG (editors) (2004). Sherris Medical Microbiology (4th ed.). McGraw Hill. pp. 409–12. ISBN 0-8385-8529-9.
- ↑ Richard L. Sweet, Ronald S. Gibbs. Infectious Diseases of the Female Genital Tract. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2009.
- ↑ Heldtander, M.; Pettersson, B.; Tully, J. G.; Johansson, K.-E. (1998). "Sequences of the 16S rRNA genes and phylogeny of the goat mycoplasmas Mycoplasma adleri, Mycoplasma auris, Mycoplasma cottewii and Mycoplasma yeatsii". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 48 (1): 263–268. doi:10.1099/00207713-48-1-263. ISSN 0020-7713.
- ↑ Chalker, V. J. (2004). "Mycoplasmas associated with canine infectious respiratory disease". Microbiology 150 (10): 3491–3497. doi:10.1099/mic.0.26848-0. ISSN 1350-0872.