Mycoplasma are bacteria that lack a conventional cell wall. They are capable of replication. Mycoplasma cause various diseases in humans, animals, and plants. There are seven species of mycoplasma that are known to cause disease in humans. Mycoplasma...

Mycoplasma are the smallest of the free-living organisms; unlike viruses, mycoplasma can reproduce outside of living cells. Many species within the genus Mycoplasma thrive as parasites in human, bird, and animal hosts. Some species can cause disease in...

Micro-organisms that do not possess a cell wall. Mycoplasmas can form colonies on media enriched with bodily fluids such as serum. The group includes organisms that are PATHOGENIC to animals and man, but not all possess this...

Prokaryotes which overlap viruses in size (100–300 nm). They do not have one typical shape but can appear coceoid, filamentous or highly...

Mycoplasma is a genus of bacteria that lack a cell wall. Because they lack a cell wall, they are unaffected by some antibiotics such as penicillin or other beta-lactam antibiotics that target cell wall synthesis. They can be parasitic or saprophytic....

Dear Editor: Since 1956, it has been realized that many cultured cell lines are contaminated with mycoplasma, which can alter the results of virtually all types of experimental studies (Stanbridge, 1971; Drexler and Uphoff, 2002). Despite a great increase in our understanding of...

Startling evidences linking chronic fatigue syndrome, arthritis, Gulf War Syndrome, multiple sclerosis, and other disorders. An MS patient mentions that his wife experiences sympathy pains in her joints. A patient with chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia comments in passing of her chocolate...

It's another step in the quest to create artificial organisms: Scientists have synthesized the complete DNA of a type of bacteria. The experiment, published online Thursday by the journal Science, isn't a living germ, just its genetic structure.But scientists from Maryland's J. Craig Venter Institute...

An organism that may have played a part in killing thousands of bighorn sheep in the West over the last five decades and in thwarting repopulation efforts has been isolated in a lab and found in struggling bighorn herds in the wild, biologists say.Research done...