pleuropneumonialike organism

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1.pleuropneumonialike organism - a mycoplasma resistant to antibiotics that causes a kind of pneumonia in humansPPLOmycoplasma - any of a group of small parasitic bacteria that lack cell walls and can survive without oxygen; can cause pneumonia and urinary tract infection

pleuropneumonialike organism

[‚plu̇r·ō·nu̇¦mō·nyə‚lik ′ȯr·gə‚niz·əm] (microbiology) A former classification for a poorly defined group of microorganisms classified in the order Mycoplasmatales, including the smallest organisms capable of independent life, and comparable in size to the large filterable viruses. Abbreviated PPLO.

pleuropneumonialike organism

pleu·ro·pneu·mon·ia·like organism

(plo͝or′ō-no͝o-mōn′yə-līk)n. Abbr. PPLO See mycoplasma.

pleuropneumonialike organism

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Synonyms for pleuropneumonialike organism

noun a mycoplasma resistant to antibiotics that causes a kind of pneumonia in humans

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PPLO

Related Words

mycoplasma

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