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.
| Mycoplasma primatum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Mycoplasmatota |
| Class: | Mollicutes |
| Order: | Mycoplasmatales |
| Family: | Mycoplasmataceae |
| Genus: | Mycoplasma |
| Species: | M. primatum
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| Binomial name | |
| Mycoplasma primatum Del Giudice et al. 1985
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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 edit
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- ^ Blanchard, Alain (2005). Mycoplasmas : molecular biology, pathogenicity and strategies for control. Wymondham: Horizon Bioscience. p. 291. ISBN 978-0849398612.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Parte, A. C. "Mycoplasma". LPSN, LPSN. Retrieved 2015-04-20.
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