Mycoplasma amphoriforme

Short description: Species of bacterium

Mycoplasma amphoriforme

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Bacteria
Phylum:  | Mycoplasmatota
Class:  | Mollicutes
Order:  | Mycoplasmatales
Family:  | Mycoplasmataceae
Genus:  | Mycoplasma
Species:  |

M. amphoriforme

Binomial name
Mycoplasma amphoriforme

Pitcher et al. 2005

Mycoplasma amphoriforme 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 found in human respiratory infections and is associated with chronic bronchitis in immunosuppressed patients.[3][4] It has been observed to possess gliding motility, a protruding polar tip resembling that of M. gallisepticum, and cytoskeletal structure at its polar tip similar to M. pneumonia's. Those infected show symptoms of lower respiratory tract infections such as increased respiratory rates and increased pulse rates.[5]

The type strain is strain A39 = ATCC BAA-992 = NCTC 11740 .[6]

## See also

* Lower respiratory tract infection

## References

1. ↑ Ryan, Kenneth J., ed (2004). Sherris medical microbiology: an introduction to infectious diseases (4th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. pp. 409–12. ISBN 978-0-8385-8529-0.
2. ↑ Richard L. Sweet; Ronald S. Gibbs (1985). Infectious Diseases of the Female Genital Tract. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2009. ISBN 9780683080384. https://archive.org/details/infectiousdiseas00swee_0.
3. ↑ Hatchel, J. M. (2006). "Ultrastructure and gliding motility of Mycoplasma amphoriforme, a possible human respiratory pathogen". Microbiology 152 (7): 2181–2189. doi:10.1099/mic.0.28905-0. ISSN 1350-0872. PMID 16804191.
4. ↑ Ureaplasma Infection: Background, Pathophysiology, Epidemiology. 24 October 2016. http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/231470-overview#a5. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
5. ↑ Ling, C. L.; Oravcova, K.; Beattie, T. F.; Creer, D. D.; Dilworth, P.; Fulton, N. L.; Hardie, A.; Munro, M. et al. (2014). "Tools for Detection of Mycoplasma amphoriforme: a Primary Respiratory Pathogen?". Journal of Clinical Microbiology 52 (4): 1177–1181. doi:10.1128/JCM.03049-13. ISSN 0095-1137. PMID 24478412.
6. ↑ Parte, A. C.. "Mycoplasma". LPSN, LPSN. https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/mycoplasma.

## External links

* Type strain of Mycoplasma amphoriforme at BacDive \- the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

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