Mycoplasma primatum | |
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Scientific classification | |
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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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]
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