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Thymidine utilisation pathway is a novel phenotypic switch of Mycoplasma hominis.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Jan 2022
Fisunov Gleb Yu, Pobeguts Olga V, Ladygina Valentina G, Zubov Alexandr I, Galyamina Mariya A, Kovalchuk Sergey I, Ziganshin Rustam K, Evsyutina Daria V, Matyushkina Daria S, Butenko Ivan O, Bukato Olga N, Veselovsky Vladimir A, Semashko Tatiana A, Klimina Ksenia M, Levina Galina A, Barhatova Olga I, Rakovskaya Irina V
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Introduction. Mycoplasma hominis is a bacterium belonging to the class Mollicutes. It causes acute and chronic infections of the urogenital tract. The main features of this bacterium are an absence of cell wall and a reduced genome size (517-622 protein-encoding genes). Previously, we have isolated morphologically unknown M. hominis colonies called micro-colonies (MCs) from the serum of patients with inflammatory...
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