Researchers have spent years taking apart one of the world's simplest microbes, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, piece by piece, and created a detailed list of what molecular parts the living cell can and ...

Health authorities are warning that potentially severe infections caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae are rising at an alarming rate. During the seven days leading up to Sept. 22, an average of 1.48 cases ...

Mycoplasmal contamination of cell culture systems continues to present major problems for basic research and for manufacturing of bioproducts. Previous work suggested that certain antibiotics have ...

An uptick of mycoplasma pneumonia cases in children has caused outbreaks in Ohio, Massachusetts, China and Denmark, though officials say they aren’t connected or linked to a “new or novel” virus. A ...

Mycoplasma contamination is prevalent in cell culture labs: in one study, researchers identified mycoplasma contamination in 11% of the 10,000 cell lines they tested (Olarerin-George et al. 2015).

Chronic inflammation associated with certain chronic infections has been defined as an important cancer-promoting condition (Karin et al., 2006; Correa and Houghton, 2007). Identification of ...

If you’ve had a persistent cough lasting weeks, it may not be the flu or Covid but a little-known infection doctors say is on the rise again. NSW is swimming in a “respiratory bug soup” that is ...

Cell culture is a commonly used method to study cells when in vivo study is not possible. It involves growing cells outside of the body of an animal, in controlled settings. These settings should be ...

An Ohio county is experiencing a pediatric outbreak of pneumonia, including a number of cases of mycoplasma pneumonia, the illness that has driven recent outbreaks among children in Denmark and China.

A systematic review on the impacts of Mycoplasma genitalium infection on adverse pregnancy outcomes has been published in the BMJ journal Sexually Transmitted Infections. The review found that ...

Much of human invention and innovation has been the result of our discovery and replication of natural phenomena, from birds in flight to whales that dive deep into the ocean. For the first time, ...