Mycoplasma lipophilum

Short description: Species of bacterium

Mycoplasma lipophilum

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

M. lipophilum

Binomial name
Mycoplasma lipophilum

Del Giudice et al. 1974

Synonyms

"Mycoplasma lipophiliae" (sic) Del Giudice and Carski 1968.

Mycoplasma lipophilum  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.

Mycoplsma lipophilum appears to be relatively rare in humans and was initially isolated from the human oral cavity.[3] It also has been cultured from primates.[4]

The type strain is strain ATCC 27104 = IFO (now NBRC) 14895 = NCTC 10173.[5]

## 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 (1985). Infectious Diseases of the Female Genital Tract. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2009. ISBN 9780683080384. https://archive.org/details/infectiousdiseas00swee_0.
3. ↑ Delgiudice, R. A.; Purcell, R. H.; Carski, T. R.; Chanock, R. M. (1974). "Mycoplasma lipophilum sp. nov.". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 24 (2): 147–153. doi:10.1099/00207713-24-2-147. ISSN 0020-7713.
4. ↑ Berger, Stephen (2014). GIDEON guide to medically important bacteria. Los Angeles, California: GIDEON Informatics Inc. ISBN 9781617558412.
5. ↑ Parte, A. C.. "Mycoplasma". LPSN, LPSN. https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/mycoplasma. Retrieved 2015-04-20.

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