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Any infectious bacterium of the genus Mycoplasma, often specifically Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
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.
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Mycoplasma means Any infectious bacterium of the genus Mycoplasma, often specifically Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
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Officials are investigating whether the illness was caused by mycoplasma, a common bacteria known as walking pneumonia.
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