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  • noun a mycoplasma resistant to antibiotics that causes a kind of pneumonia in humans

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Examples

  • The PPLO group does cause a type of arthritis, too, but only the type associated with a venereal disease called essential urethritis.

    Cities In Flight Blish, James 1957

  • To quantify Mp in apical supernatants of epithelial cells, PPLO plates with apical supernatant were incubated at 37°C with 5% CO Microarray Smoke vs. Air - Reduced Genes.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Rebecca M. Green et al. 2009

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