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Mollicutes
Mollicutes[mə′lik·yə‚dēz] (microbiology) The mycoplasmas, a class of prokaryotic organisms lacking a true cell wall; cells are very small to submicroscopic. Mollicutes
Mollicutes (mol″ĭ′kūt-ēz) [L. mollis, soft + cutis, skin] A class of very small bacteria, some of which have cell walls and others of which have no cell walls but are surrounded instead by a cell membrane. It includes several genera that cause human diseases, including Erysipelothrix (a gram-positive rod shaped bacterium that has a cell wall), Mycoplasma, and Ureaplasma. |