Mycoplasma primatum

Mycoplasma primatum
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Firmicutes
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). "TheE Isolation of Mycoplasma primatum During an Autopsy Study of the Mycoplasma Floria of the Human Urinary Tract". Acta Pathologica Microbiologica Scandinavica Section B Microbiology and Immunology. 82B (5): 653–656. doi:10.1111/j.1699-0463.1974.tb00232.x. ISSN 0365-5563.
  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.
  7. ↑ Parte, A. C. "Mycoplasma". LPSN, bacterio.net. Retrieved 2015-04-20.


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