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Ureaplasma urealyticum causes
Introduction
Causes
Causes
Taxonomy of Ureaplasma urealyticum[1]
- Kingdom: Bacteria
- Division: Firmicutes
- Class: Mollicutes
- Order: Mycoplasmatales
- Family: Mycoplasmataceae
- Genus: Ureaplasma
- Species: U. urealyticum
Some of the characteristics of Ureaplasma species[1]
- Self-replicating biological entities.
- Exist in tiny colonies that are smaller than colonies of other members of the Mycoplasmataceae family.
- Unusual optimal pH growth of 6–6.5.
- Unique ability to hydrolyze urea.
- Urease activity is essential for ATP generation by a chemiosmotic mechanism.
- Express human immunoglobulin A1 protease activity.
- Ureaplasma from humans do not exhibit serological cross-reactivity with ureaplasmas from other hosts.
References
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Robertson JA, Stemke GW, Davis JW, Harasawa R, Thirkell D, Kong F; et al. (2002). “Proposal of Ureaplasma parvum sp. nov. and emended description of Ureaplasma urealyticum (Shepard et al. 1974) Robertson et al. 2001”. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 52 (Pt 2): 587–97. doi:10.1099/00207713-52-2-587. PMID 11931172.
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