This type of pneumonia is also called atypical pneumonia, walking pneumonia, or community-acquired pneumonia
i-m-v+c+
It is responsible for 10-20% of all pneumonias
most of them are facultative anaerobes. oxygen is not pioson for them. M. pneumoniae is aerobe. there are also some strict anaerobes in bovine rumen.
About 20% of patients may have ear pain
The genus is Mycoplasma and the species is pneumoniae. It's binomial name is Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
a bacteria. the bacteria that causes pneumonia is called pneumoniae.
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Alpha toxin by Staphylococcus aureus M protein of Streptococcus pyogenes Polypeptide capsule of Bacillus anthracis Pilli of Neisseria gonorrhea Polysaccharide capsule of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Hemophillus influenzae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa
No, Klebsiella pneumoniae is non-motile. No, Klebsiella pneumoniae is non-motile.
The hemolysis is called green hemolysis because of the color change in the agar.
No, K. pneumoniae will not grow on Mannitol Salt Agar- gram negative organisms cannot grow on MSA, and K. pneumoniae is gram negative.
It is estimated that there are over 50,000 cases of strepococcus pneumoniae each year.