Motility often plays a decisive role in the survival of species. Five systems of motility have been
studied in depth: those propelled by bacterial flagella, eukaryotic actin polymerization and …

Pneumonia caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae (M. pneumoniae pneumonia) is a major
cause of community-acquired pneumonia worldwide. The surveillance of M. pneumoniae …

In recent years, Mycoplasma pneumoniae strains that are clinically resistant to macrolide
antibiotics have occasionally been encountered in Japan. Of 76 strains of M. pneumoniae …

Some patients with Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection are clinically resistant to antibiotics
such as erythromycin, clarithromycin, or clindamycin. We isolated M. pneumoniae from such …

Despite frequent colonization with Mycoplasma hominis, the invasive disease is rare in
neonates. This study describes a neonatal case with meningitis in which M. hominis was isolated …

Macrolide-resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MR M. pneumoniae) has been isolated from
clinical specimens in Japan since 2000. A comparative study was carried out to determine …

The complete genomic sequence of an intracellular bacterial pathogen, Mycoplasma
penetrans HF‐2 strain, was determined. The HF‐2 genome consists of a 1 358 633 bp single …

A method was developed for protein localization in Mycoplasma pneumoniae by
immunofluorescence microscopy. The P1 adhesin protein was revealed to be located at least at one …

Mycoplasma pneumoniae clinical isolates obtained between 1995 and 2005 were examined
to determine the prevalent genotype. One hundred and twenty-seven strains isolated from …

Two hundred fifty strains of Mycoplasma pneumoniae isolated during the past 20 years in
Japan were classified into two groups (I and II) based upon different PCR-restriction fragment …