Mycoplasma faucium

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Mycoplasma faucium
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Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Mycoplasmatota
Class: Mollicutes
Order: Mycoplasmatales
Family: Mycoplasmataceae
Genus: Mycoplasma
Species:
M. faucium
Binomial name
Mycoplasma faucium
Freundt et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Mycoplasma faucium 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.

It was first described in 1974 and has been considered a rare inhabitant of humans. [3] [4] It is considered to usually be a commensal and is a rare bacteria of the normal microbiota of the human oropharynx; it is sometimes cultured from oropharynx of nonhuman primates. [4] [5] However, recent reports have proposed that in common with Mycoplasma hominis , M. faucium may be a pathogen in some brain abscesses. [6]

The type strain is strain ATCC 25293 = NCTC 10174. [7]

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