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Mycoplasma
Sign in to saveMycoplasma is a genus of bacteria that, like the other members of the class Mollicutes, lack a cell wall (peptidoglycan) around their cell membrane. The absence of peptidoglycan makes them naturally resistant to antibiotics such as the beta-lactam antibiotics that target cell wall synthesis. They can be parasitic or saprotrophic.
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Mycoplasma is a genus of bacteria within the family Mycoplasmataceae and order Mycoplasmatales. The scientific name is attributed to Nowak, 1929. Taxonomic classifications for this genus vary slightly across databases; some list it under the class Bacilli and phylum Firmicutes, while others assign it to the class Mollicutes and phylum Tenericutes. The genus holds an accepted status in taxonomic records.
Records indicate that Mycoplasma has a marine habitat. The organism is documented in 19,825 occurrence records and is the subject of 35,125 publications in the PubMed database. Additionally, the genus is referenced by 384 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 24 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, GBIF, PubMed, Gbif Occ, WoRMS, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Species
Mycoplasma
GENUS
- KingdomBacteria
- PhylumFirmicutes
- ClassBacilli
- OrderMycoplasmatales
- FamilyMycoplasmataceae
via GBIF
Key facts
- Medical condition.name
- Mycoplasmosis
- Medical condition.field
- Infectious disease
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
35,125 papersvia PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Mycoplasmataceae
- Image
- M. haemofelis IP2011.jpg
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- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Mycoplasma
- Commons category
- Mycoplasma
- topic's main category
- Category:Mycoplasma
- Gram staining
- gram-negative bacteria
- taxon common name
- mycoplasma
- LPSN URL
- lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/mycoplasma
- taxonomic type
- Mycoplasma mycoides
- different from
- Mycobacterium
- nomenclatural type of
- Mycoplasmatota
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Characteristics
- Important characteristics
- Cell and colony morphology
- Reproduction
- Taxonomy
- History of taxonomy
- As of 2018
- Unassigned species
- Synthetic mycoplasma genome
- See also
- References
- External links
Mycoplasma is a genus of bacteria that, like the other members of the class Mollicutes, lack a cell wall (peptidoglycan) around their cell membrane. The absence of peptidoglycan makes them naturally resistant to antibiotics such as the beta-lactam antibiotics that target cell wall synthesis. They can be parasitic or saprotrophic.
In casual speech, the name "mycoplasma" (plural mycoplasmas or mycoplasms) generally refers to all members of the class Mollicutes. In formal scientific classification, the designation Mycoplasma refers exclusively to the genus, a member of the Mycoplasmataceae, the only family in the order Mycoplasmatales (see "scientific classification"). In 2018, Mycoplasma was split with many clinically significant species moved to other genera in Mollicutes; see the page Mollicutes for an overview.
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