Mycoplasma primatum

Mycoplasma primatum is a species of bacteria in the genus Mycoplasma. This genus of bacteria lacks a cell wall around their cell membrane.^[1] Without a cell wall, they are unaffected by many common antibiotics such as penicillin or other beta-lactam antibiotics that target cell wall synthesis. Mycoplasma are the smallest bacterial cells yet discovered,^[2] can survive without oxygen and are typically about 0. 1  μm in diameter.

Mycoplasma primatum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Mycoplasmatota
Class:	Mollicutes
Order:	Mycoplasmatales
Family:	Mycoplasmataceae
Genus:	Mycoplasma
Species:	M. primatum
Binomial name
Mycoplasma primatum Del Giudice et al. 1985

This species is common in the oral and urogenital tracts of cercopithecine monkeys where it was first isolated in 1971. It was also isolated a human with an infected umbilicus and vagina in 1955. It has not been identified as a pathogen.^[3][4][5] Its genome has been sequenced.^[6] The type strain is ATCC 25948 = NCTC 10163.^[7]

References

1. Ryan KJ, Ray CG (editors) (2004). Sherris Medical Microbiology (4th ed.). McGraw Hill. pp. 409–12. ISBN 0-8385-8529-9. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
2. Richard L. Sweet, Ronald S. Gibbs. Infectious Diseases of the Female Genital Tract. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2009.
3. Winn, Washington (2006). Koneman's color atlas and textbook of diagnostic microbiology. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. ISBN 978-0781730143.
4. Blanchard, Alain (2005). Mycoplasmas : molecular biology, pathogenicity and strategies for control. Wymondham: Horizon Bioscience. p. 291. ISBN 978-0849398612.
5. Thomsen, A. C. (2009). "The Isolation of Mycoplasma primatum During an Autopsy Study of the Mycoplasma Floria of the Human Urinary Tract". APMIS. 82B (5): 653–656. doi:10.1111/j.1699-0463.1974.tb00232.x. ISSN 0365-5563. PMID 4215281.
6. Rawadi, G.; Dujeancourt-Henry, A.; Lemercier, B.; Roulland-Dussoix, D. (1998). "Note: Phylogenetic position of rare human mycoplasmas, Mycoplasma faucium, M. buccale, M. primatum and M. spermatophilum, based on 16S rRNA gene sequences". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 48 (1): 305–309. doi:10.1099/00207713-48-1-305. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9542101.
7. Parte, A. C. "Mycoplasma". LPSN, LPSN. Retrieved 2015-04-20.