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Now let’s turn our attention to mycoplasma hominis,
the other typical human pathogen in the mycoplasma family.
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This microorganism is facultatively anaerobic
and when it grows or appears it looks exactly like a fried egg appearance
which you see are represented in the image in front of you.
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The two colonies encircled in green, to me, look like a sunny side up egg,
that’s a fried egg appearance, very typical for the appearance of mycoplasma hominis.
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Most cases of mycoplasma hominis are sexually transmitted
and affect some location in the genitourinary area.
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Pyelonephritis, a kidney infection; pelvic inflammatory disease.
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Also post abortal fever and postpartum fever,
all can be associated with presence of that organism somewhere in the urogenital tract.
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So we haven't spent a lot of time on mycoplasma hominis
because it is most often a relatively low virulence - lowly or slowly progressing organism.
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Far more attention is derived toward mycoplasma pneumonae as a frequent cause
of atypical pneumonia and other sinopulmonary infections.
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And with that I’ll conclude all that we know about mycoplasma.