Mycoplasma primatum

Short description: Species of bacterium

Mycoplasma primatum

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

M. primatum

Binomial name
Mycoplasma primatum

Del Giudice et al. 1985

Mycoplasma primatum  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.

This species is common in the oral and urogenital tracts of cercopithecine monkeys where it was first isolated in 1971. It was also isolated a human with an infected umbilicus and vagina in 1955. It has not been identified as a pathogen.[3][4][5] Its genome has been sequenced.[6] The type strain is ATCC 25948 = NCTC 10163.[7]

## 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. ↑ Winn, Washington (2006). Koneman's color atlas and textbook of diagnostic microbiology. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. ISBN 978-0781730143.
4. ↑ Blanchard, Alain (2005). Mycoplasmas : molecular biology, pathogenicity and strategies for control. Wymondham: Horizon Bioscience. p. 291. ISBN 978-0849398612.
5. ↑ Thomsen, A. C. (2009). "The Isolation of Mycoplasma primatum During an Autopsy Study of the Mycoplasma Floria of the Human Urinary Tract". APMIS 82B (5): 653–656. doi:10.1111/j.1699-0463.1974.tb00232.x. ISSN 0365-5563. PMID 4215281.
6. ↑ Rawadi, G.; Dujeancourt-Henry, A.; Lemercier, B.; Roulland-Dussoix, D. (1998). "Note: Phylogenetic position of rare human mycoplasmas, Mycoplasma faucium, M. buccale, M. primatum and M. spermatophilum, based on 16S rRNA gene sequences". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 48 (1): 305–309. doi:10.1099/00207713-48-1-305. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9542101.
7. ↑ Parte, A. C.. "Mycoplasma". LPSN, LPSN. https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/mycoplasma.

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