mycoplasma

See also: Mycoplasma

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

mycoplasma (countable and uncountable, plural mycoplasmas or mycoplasmata)

1. Any infectious bacterium of the genus Mycoplasma, often specifically
   • 2007 January 5, Katie Zezima, “More Rhode Island Schools Closed in Disease Outbreak”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

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

   • 2013 March, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist‎^[2], volume 101, number 2, page 83:

     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.

Translations

infectious bacterium

• Czech: mykoplazma f
• Estonian: mükoplasma
• Finnish: mykoplasma
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• German: Mykoplasmen (de) pl
• Portuguese: micoplasma f
• Swedish: mycoplasma

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Swedish

Noun

mycoplasma ?

1. (bacteriology) mycoplasma