Meaning of mycoplasma | Babel Free

Definitions

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

countable, uncountable

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“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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