Mycoplasma

Quick meaning: Mycoplasma is a noun meaning Any infectious bacterium of the genus Mycoplasma, often specifically Mycoplasma pneumoniae.

Meaning

Any infectious bacterium of the genus Mycoplasma, often specifically Mycoplasma pneumoniae.

Example Sentences

Officials are investigating whether the illness was caused by mycoplasma, a common bacteria known as walking pneumonia.

It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.

Word Forms

• mycoplasmas
• mycoplasmata

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mycoplasmosis, mycobacterium, metapneumovirus, pneumococcus, hemoplasma, pneumotype.

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