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A group of bacteria that do not form cell walls. PPLOs are included in the phylum Aphragmabacteria (see Classification). One PPLO, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, is the cause in humans of an atypical pneumonia.
Subjects: Genetics and Genomics.
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