Sketchy Microbiology: Mycoplasma

“walking on thin ice" — Mycoplasma pneumonia

No stain color — Gram indeterminate

(Doesn’t Gram stain)

Outdoors / No walls — No cell wall, only cell membrane

(This is why it doesnt Gram stain)

Net with ringed structures resembling sterols — Cholesterol in the cell membrane, sterols in the membrane

Referee walking around with no issues — Atypical pneumonia because can’t readily culture a microbe → walking pneumonia.

Patchy collection of clouds in the sky — Patchy infiltrate in the x ray

Young players — Young adults, commonly in military recruits. Less than 30 y/o

Camouflage goalie <30 — Military recruits <30

Hockey pucks that are stuck together — IgM molecules that agglutinate red blood cells in cold temperatures, lysis of RBC's

IgM Snowflakes — IgM

Do not EAT ON ice sign — Grown on eatons agar

Crows — Treatment is Macrolides: Zpack

What are the Mycoplasmas isolated from the genitourethral region?

• M. hominis

• M. genitalium

• U. urealyticum