The term “mycoplasma” is used to refer to any microorganism that belongs to the class Mollicutes. Among them, genital mycoplasmas are primarily sexually transmitted (albeit they may also be ...

Cell culture is a deliciously inviting hub for bacteria, fungi, and mycoplasmas. However, as our own 'cell-culture sleuth' points out, failing to detect and eliminate contamination can alter all ...

Mycoplasmas regularly change their surface proteins to confuse the immune systems of the humans and animals they invade. Recent work in the group of Renate Rosengarten and Rohini Chopra-Dewasthaly at ...

Mycoplasmas were isolated from 22 per cent and 12 per cent of newborn infants with birth weights less or greater than 2.5 kg, respectively. Most isolates were identified as "T strains," and the rest ...

Mycoplasmas are the smallest self-replicating living organisms, with a genome in some cases less than 600 kilobases. They are extracellular parasites intimately associated with the surface of the ...

Despite their relatively small genome, mycoplasmas can cause persistent and difficult-to-treat infections in humans and animals. A study has shown how mycoplasmas escape the immune response.

After a microbiology-filled academic and research career, Diana Patzelt became the Global Project Manager for Microbial Enumeration Products at Sartorius (Göttingen, Germany), earning her the title of ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 77, No. 1, [Part 2: Biological Sciences] (Jan., 1980), pp. 494-498 (5 pages) The phylogenetic relationships ...

Hemotropic mycoplasmas are a group of specialised bacteria that attach to the surface of erythrocytes, causing infections that are often subclinical but may lead to anaemia and other blood ...

A multidisciplinary team has uncovered a key mechanism that allows the human bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae—responsible for atypical pneumonia and other respiratory infections—to obtain cholesterol ...

Mycoplasmas are considered to be the smallest free-living organisms known, characterized by an outer membrane that consists of three layers, as well as a total lack of cell wall (which renders these ...

Pathogenic bacteria have evolved a variety of mechanisms to avoid being killed by the immune systems of the humans and animals they invade. Among the most sophisticated is that practiced by ...