Ureaplasma

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Mycoplasmatales
Prokaryota Superregnum: Bacteria Group: Terrabacteria group Phylum: Tenericutes Classis: Mollicutes Ordo: Mycoplasmatales

Familia: Mycoplasmataceae
Genus: Ureaplasma
Species (7): U. canigenitalium – U. cati – U. diversum – U. fellinum – U. gallorale – U. parvum – U. urealyticum

Name

• Ureaplasma Shepard, Lunceford, Ford, Purcell, Taylor-Robinson, Razin & Black 1974, 167

Type species: Ureaplasma urealyticum Shepard, Lunceford, Ford, Purcell, Taylor-Robinson, Razin & Black 1974, 167 emend. Robertson, Stemke, Davis, Harasawa, Thirkell, Kong, Shepard & Ford 2002, 593.

References

Primary references

• Shepard, M.C., Lunceford, C.D., Ford, D.K., Purcell, R.H., Taylor-Robinson, D., Razin, S. & Black, F.T. 1974. Ureaplasma urealyticum gen. nov., sp. nov.: proposed nomenclature for the human T (T-strain) mycoplasmas. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 24(2): 160–171. DOI: 10.1099/00207713-24-2-160 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Robertson, J.A., Stemke, G.W., Davis, J.W., Harasawa, R., Thirkell, D., Kong, F., Shepard, M.C. & Ford, D.K. 2002. Proposal of Ureaplasma parvum sp. nov. and emended description of Ureaplasma urealyticum (Shepard et al. 1974) Robertson et al. 2001. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 52: 587–597.

Links

• Ureaplasma – Taxon details on National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
• European Nucleotide Archive: Ureaplasma
• LPSN: Ureaplasma
• DSMZ: Ueaplasma