''Spiroplasma mirum'' is a
bacterium in the genus ''
Spiroplasma
''Spiroplasma'' is a genus of Mollicutes, a group of small bacteria without cell walls. ''Spiroplasma'' shares the simple metabolism, parasitic lifestyle, fried-egg colony morphology and small genome of other ''Mollicutes'', but has a distinctive ...
''. A strain of it, called ''Spiroplasma mirum'' strain SMCA (Suckling mouse cataract agent), causes cataracts in suckling mice.
References
External links
Type strain of ''Spiroplasma mirum'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Mollicutes
Bacteria described in 1982
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