Mycoplasma faucium

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.

Mycoplasma faucium
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Firmicutes
Class:
Mollicutes
Order:
Mycoplasmatales
Family:
Mycoplasmataceae
Genus:
Mycoplasma
Species:
M.  faucium
Binomial name
Mycoplasma faucium

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]

References
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  3. Freundt, E. A.; Taylor-Robinson, D.; Purcell, R. H.; Chanock, R. M.; Black, F. T. (1974). "Proposal of Mycoplasma buccale nom. nov. and Mycoplasma faucium nom. nov. for Mycoplasma orale "Types" 2 and 3, Respectively". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 24 (2): 252–255. doi:10.1099/00207713-24-2-252. ISSN 0020-7713.
  4. Rawadi, G.; Dujeancourt-Henry, A.; Lemercier, B.; Roulland-Dussoix, D. (1998). "Note: Phylogenetic position of rare human mycoplasmas, Mycoplasma faucium, M. buccale, M. primatum and M. spermatophilum, based on 16S rRNA gene sequences". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 48 (1): 305–309. doi:10.1099/00207713-48-1-305. ISSN 0020-7713.
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  6. Al Masalma, M; Armougom, F; Scheld, W. M.; Dufour, H; Roche, P. H.; Drancourt, M; Raoult, D (2009). "The expansion of the microbiological spectrum of brain abscesses with use of multiple 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing". Clinical Infectious Diseases. 48 (9): 1169–78. doi:10.1086/597578. PMID 19335164.
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