Ureaplasma

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Ureaplasma is a genus of bacteria belonging to the family Mycoplasmataceae. As the name implies, Ureaplasma is urease positive.[1]

Kingdom:Bacillati
Phylum:Mycoplasmatota
Class:Mollicutes
Order:Mycoplasmoidales
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Ureaplasma
A number of medium-sized, Ureaplasma urealyticum colonies, otherwise known as T-strain mycoplasma, under magnification of 500×
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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Mycoplasmatota
Class: Mollicutes
Order: Mycoplasmoidales
Family: Mycoplasmoidaceae
Genus: Ureaplasma
Shepard et al. 1974
Type species
Ureaplasma urealyticum
Shepard et al. 1974
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Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)[2] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).[3]

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024[4][5][6] 120 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS220[7][8][9]
Ureaplasma

U. miroungigenitalium Volokhov et al. 2020

U. zalophigenitalium Volokhov et al. 2020

U. diversum Howard & Gourlay 1982

U. gallorale Koshimizu et al. 1987

U. parvum Robertson et al. 2002

U. urealyticum Shepard et al. 1974

U. canigenitalium Harasawa et al. 1993

U. cati Harasawa et al. 1990

U. felinum Harasawa et al. 1990
Ureaplasma

"Ca. U. intestinipullorum" Gilroy et al. 2021

U. miroungigenitalium

U. zalophigenitalium

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