mycoplasma

Noun
  1. Any of a group of small parasitic bacteria that lack cell walls and can survive without oxygen;
    Can cause pneumonia and urinary tract infection (synset 101376467)
    is a type of: eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria - a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella
    subtypes: pleuropneumonialike organism, pplo - a mycoplasma resistant to antibiotics that causes a kind of pneumonia in humans
    belongs to: genus mycoplasma - type and sole genus of the family Mycoplasmataceae

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