Ureaplasma

Ureaplasma is a genus of bacteria belonging to the family Mycoplasmataceae. As the name implies, Ureaplasma is urease positive.

Ureaplasma
A number of medium-sized, Ureaplasma urealyticum colonies, otherwise known as T-strain mycoplasma, under magnification of 500×
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Mycoplasmatota
Class:	Mollicutes
Order:	Mycoplasmatales
Family:	Mycoplasmataceae
Genus:	Ureaplasma Shepard et al. 1974
Type species
Ureaplasma urealyticum Shepard et al. 1974
Species
U. canigenitalium U. cati U. diversum U. felinum U. gallorale "Ca. U. intestinipullorum" "U. loridis" U. miroungigenitalium U. parvum U. urealyticum U. zalophigenitalium

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)^[1] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)^[2]

16S rRNA based LTP_08_2023[3][4][5]	120 marker proteins based GTDB 08-RS214[6][7][8]
U. miroungigenitalium Volokhov et al. 2020 U. zalophigenitalium Volokhov et al. 2020 U. gallorale Koshimizu et al. 1987 U. parvum Robertson et al. 2002 U. urealyticum Shepard et al. 1974 U. diversum Howard & Gourlay 1982 U. canigenitalium Harasawa et al. 1993 U. cati Harasawa et al. 1990 U. felinum Harasawa et al. 1990	"Ca. U. intestinipullorum" Gilroy et al. 2021 U. canigenitalium U. diversum U. parvum U. urealyticum

See also

• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera

References

1. A.C. Parte; et al. "Ureaplasma". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 9 September 2022.
2. Sayers; et al. "Ureaplasma". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
3. "The LTP". Retrieved 20 November 2023.
4. "LTP_all tree in newick format". Retrieved 20 November 2023.
5. "LTP_08_2023 Release Notes" (PDF). Retrieved 20 November 2023.
6. "GTDB release 08-RS214". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
7. "bac120_r214.sp_label". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
8. "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2023.

External links

• Ureaplasma Infection: eMedicine Infectious Diseases