Mycoplasma hominis: Difference between revisions
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<br>Cluster: <i>M. bovis; M. pulmonis; M. hominis</i> | <br>Cluster: <i>M. bovis; M. pulmonis; M. hominis</i> | ||
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<br> | <br>M. hominis is a pathogen in humans commonly found as part of urogenital tract flora especially of women and sexually active adult males [14]. This bacteria cause a variety of infections which may lead to pelvic inflammatory disease, post-abortal fever, post-partum fever and extragenital infections for immunodepressed humans [14]. It also can cause meningitis, pneumonia and abcesseses in newborn children [20]. M. hominis lives parasitically and saphrophytically with hosts [25]. | ||
==Section 1== | ==Section 1== |
Revision as of 22:32, 22 April 2013
Introduction
By [Jimmy Chapman 2013]
Classification
Higher Order Taxa:
Bacteria; Firmicutes; Mollicutes; Mycoplasmatales; Mycoplasmataceae; Mycoplasma
Species:
M. hominis
Cluster: M. bovis; M. pulmonis; M. hominis
Description and Significance:
M. hominis is a pathogen in humans commonly found as part of urogenital tract flora especially of women and sexually active adult males [14]. This bacteria cause a variety of infections which may lead to pelvic inflammatory disease, post-abortal fever, post-partum fever and extragenital infections for immunodepressed humans [14]. It also can cause meningitis, pneumonia and abcesseses in newborn children [20]. M. hominis lives parasitically and saphrophytically with hosts [25].
Section 1
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Section 2
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Section 3
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Conclusion
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References
Edited by student of Joan Slonczewski for BIOL 238 Microbiology, 2011, Kenyon College.