Mycoplasma hominis

Introduction

Mycoplasma hominis viewed under an electron microscope [15]. The coccoid shape of the microorganism can be observed.

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].

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References

[Sample reference] Takai, K., Sugai, A., Itoh, T., and Horikoshi, K. "Palaeococcus ferrophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a barophilic, hyperthermophilic archaeon from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 2000. Volume 50. p. 489-500.

Edited by student of Joan Slonczewski for BIOL 238 Microbiology, 2011, Kenyon College.