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• n  any of a group of small parasitic bacteria that lack cell walls and can survive without oxygen; can cause pneumonia and urinary tract infection

• Not only did Venter's team members succeed in building their own mycoplasma at their own lab benches, they also took the opportunity to rewrite its genetic score.
• Montagnier thinks it was a strain of mycoplasma that until recent years was confined to America.
• He faced it again in 1990, when he supported a controversial theory that mycoplasma, a bacterium-like organism, is the trigger that turns a slow-growing population of AIDS viruses .

News & Articles

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• Meridian Bioscience Receives FDA Clearance for New Molecular Amplification Test: illumigene® Mycoplasma
  Meridian Bioscience, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio today announced that it has received FDA clearance for a new molecular diagnostic test for Mycoplasma pneumonia , its fourth assay on the illumigene platform.
  June 10, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

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• Hamilton O. Smith in New Zealand Herald
  We have completely chemically synthesised an entire Mycoplasma genitalium chromosome. It's about 580,000 nucleotides in length and we've successfully cloned the chromosome in yeast,Dr Smith said.