Mycoplasma spumans

Species of bacterium

Mycoplasma spumans

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

M. spumans

Binomial name
Mycoplasma spumans

Edward 1955

Synonyms

"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

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1. ^ Ryan KJ, Ray CG (editors) (2004). Sherris Medical Microbiology (4th ed.). McGraw Hill. pp. 409–12\. ISBN 0-8385-8529-9. `{{cite book}}`: `|author=` has generic name (help)
2. ^ Richard L. Sweet, Ronald S. Gibbs (1985). Infectious Diseases of the Female Genital Tract. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2009. ISBN 9780683080384.
3. ^ 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. PMID 9542096.
4. ^ 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. PMID 15470126.

Taxon identifiers

Mycoplasma spumans|

* Wikidata: Q3869062
* CoL: 44XHJ
* EoL: 974832
* GBIF: 3226014
* IRMNG: 10032628
* ITIS: 963955
* LPSN: mycoplasma-spumans
* NCBI: 92406
* Open Tree of Life: 736039

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