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pplo::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | pleuropneumonialike organism |
| Type of | mycoplasma |
Examples of pplo
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Like viruses, PPLO can invade living cells and destroy them from within.
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British researchers have also incriminated PPLO in puerperal fevers and fevers following gynecologic surgery.
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One of the few things clear about PPLO is that they have been fouling up microbiologists'experiments for years.
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The surgery, they suspect-on the basis of a near-fatal case of PPLO blood poisoning-may help to spill PPLO into the bloodstream.
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- Pleuropneumonialike organism: a mycoplasma resistant to antibiotics that causes a kind of pneumonia in humans
- Mycoplasma is a genus of bacteria that lack a cell wall. Without a cell wall, they are unaffected by many common antibiotics such as penicillin or other beta-lactam antibiotics that target cell wall synthesis. They can be parasitic or saprotrophic. ...
