Query: NC_013511:18060 Mycoplasma hominis, complete genome Lineage: Mycoplasma hominis; Mycoplasma; Mycoplasmataceae; Mycoplasmatales; Tenericutes; Bacteria General Information: Mycoplasma hominis strain PG21 was isolated from a human rectal swab. Mycoplasma hominis in a member of the urogenital flora of humans, however, this organism has occasionally been identified as the causative agent of urogenital infections.
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General Information: This strain is an egg-passaged attentuated avirulent strain that has been used as a live vaccine and was originally isolated from a typhus patient in Madrid. This species is the causal agent of typhus. The bacteria are transmitted via an insect, usually a tick, to a host organism, in this case humans, where they target endothelial cells and sometimes macrophages. They attach via an adhesin, rickettsial outer membrane protein A, and are internalized where they persist as cytoplasmically free organisms. Transovarial transmission (from mother to offspring) occurs in the invertebrate host.