Sample:

Sputum from an agammaglobulinaemic patient with ? chest infection

Medium:

Mycoplasma Experience Mycoplasma Medium

Incubation:

10 days, 95% N2 / 5% CO2

(Many featureless colonies are developing, the large colony is probably

M. salivarium)

Identification:

Unidentified as yet (June 1999), probably not a recognised human species

Bar = 1 mm

 

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