Mycoplasma--adjectives and proper nouns

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The word " mycoplasma " is used in more than one way.

Presumably this is a source of a lot of confusion.

There are a group of bacteria that go by the formal name

" Mycoplasma " . Their existence is indisputable.

But " mycoplasma " is sometimes used to refer to CWD variants

of walled bacteria. In this case, the word is used as an

adjective, not a proper noun. I think that consensus may be

lacking on the existence of viable CWD variants.

This source sort of describes the distinction:

" Mycoplasma species also have been mistakenly believed to be

L-forms of bacteria, which also lack cell walls. Unlike

mycoplasmal organisms, L-form bacteria do not have sterols in

the cell membranes, and they can revert to their walled parental

forms.....

.....Mycoplasma species differ from bacteria (including L-forms) in

the following ways:

* Sterols in cell membrane

* No DNA homology with known bacteria

* Low guanine plus cytosine content

* Low molecular weight of genome

* No reversion to walled forms "

http://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic1524.htm

Matt

> > >

> > > > Because Mycos have no cell wall they are also not

subject to

> ABX.