Ureaplasma

Ureaplasma is a genus of bacteria belonging to the family Mycoplasmataceae. As the name implies, Ureaplasma is urease positive^[1].

Ureaplasma
A number of medium-sized, Ureaplasma urealyticum colonies, otherwise known as T-strain mycoplasma, under magnification of 500×
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Mycoplasmatota
Class:	Mollicutes
Order:	Mycoplasmoidales
Family:	Mycoplasmoidaceae
Genus:	Ureaplasma Shepard et al. 1974
Type species
Ureaplasma urealyticum Shepard et al. 1974
Species
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Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)^[2] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).^[3]

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024[4][5][6]	120 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS220[7][8][9]
Ureaplasma U. miroungigenitalium Volokhov et al. 2020 U. zalophigenitalium Volokhov et al. 2020 U. diversum Howard & Gourlay 1982 U. gallorale Koshimizu et al. 1987 U. parvum Robertson et al. 2002 U. urealyticum Shepard et al. 1974 U. canigenitalium Harasawa et al. 1993 U. cati Harasawa et al. 1990 U. felinum Harasawa et al. 1990	Ureaplasma "Ca. U. intestinipullorum" Gilroy et al. 2021 U. miroungigenitalium U. zalophigenitalium U. canigenitalium U. diversum U. parvum U. urealyticum

Unassigned species:

• "U. loridis" Chalker, Paterson & Brownlie 2003

See also

• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera