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mycoplasma

DEFINITIONS OF: mycoplasma

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n any of a group of small parasitic bacteria that lack cell walls and can survive without oxygen; can cause pneumonia and urinary tract infection

Types:
PPLO, pleuropneumonialike organism
a mycoplasma resistant to antibiotics that causes a kind of pneumonia in humans
Type of:
eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria
a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella
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