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nounany of a group of small parasitic bacteria that lack cell walls and can survive without oxygen; can cause pneumonia and urinary tract infectiontype of:
Definition that contains mycoplasma
- mycoplasmatales coextensive with the family Mycoplasmataceae
- primary atypical pneumonia an acute respiratory disease marked by high fever and coughing; caused by mycoplasma; primarily affecting children and young adults
- atypical pneumonia an acute respiratory disease marked by high fever and coughing; caused by mycoplasma; primarily affecting children and young adults
- order mycoplasmatales coextensive with the family Mycoplasmataceae
- procaryote a unicellular organism having cells lacking membrane-bound nuclei; bacteria are the prime example but also included are blue-green algae and actinomycetes and mycoplasma
- genus mycoplasma type and sole genus of the family Mycoplasmataceae
- pleuropneumonialike organism a mycoplasma resistant to antibiotics that causes a kind of pneumonia in humans
- mycoplasmal pneumonia an acute respiratory disease marked by high fever and coughing; caused by mycoplasma; primarily affecting children and young adults
- pplo a mycoplasma resistant to antibiotics that causes a kind of pneumonia in humans
- prokaryote a unicellular organism having cells lacking membrane-bound nuclei; bacteria are the prime example but also included are blue-green algae and actinomycetes and mycoplasma