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mollicutes
(redirected from nonhaemotrophic mollicutes)

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mollicutes
members of the order Mycoplasmatales, class Mollicutes. Genera of veterinary importance are Acholeplasma, Mycoplasma, and Ureaplasma.

haemophilic mollicutes
include organisms previously included in the genera Haemobartonella and Eperythrozoon; usually cause haemolytic anemia in a wide range of animal species.
nonhaemotrophic mollicutes
include members of the genus Ureaplasma and some members of the genus Mycoplasma not associated with red blood cells. Most have a high degree of host specificity and infect a wide range of animal species causing subclinical to severe infections of the respiratory and urogenital tracts, arthritis, septicemia and mastitis.


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