Mycoplasmoides pneumoniae QC Overview

Mycoplasmoides pneumoniae (formerly Mycoplasma pneumoniae) is a wall-less, Gram-stain-negative bacterium in the class Mollicutes, and a leading cause of community-acquired atypical pneumonia, tracheobronchitis, and upper respiratory tract infections in humans, particularly in children and young adults. It attaches to respiratory epithelial cells via a specialised tip organelle and causes disease through community-acquired respiratory damage and immune-mediated mechanisms. M. pneumoniae has one of the smallest known bacterial genomes (~0.8 Mb) with minimal biosynthetic capacity and limited strain diversity, organised into two major genotypic lineages defined by the P1 adhesin gene.