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Ureaplasma is a genus of bacteria belonging to the family Mycoplasmataceae. As the name implies, Ureaplasma is urease positive.[1]

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)[2] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).[3]

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024[4][5][6] 120 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS220[7][8][9]
Ureaplasma

U. miroungigenitalium Volokhov et al. 2020

U. zalophigenitalium Volokhov et al. 2020

U. diversum Howard & Gourlay 1982

U. gallorale Koshimizu et al. 1987

U. parvum Robertson et al. 2002

U. urealyticum Shepard et al. 1974

U. canigenitalium Harasawa et al. 1993

U. cati Harasawa et al. 1990

U. felinum Harasawa et al. 1990

Ureaplasma

Ca. U. intestinipullorum” Gilroy et al. 2021

U. miroungigenitalium

U. zalophigenitalium

Unassigned species:

  • U. loridisChalker, Paterson & Brownlie 2003

See also

References

  1. ^ Huang, Felicia Scaggs; Shah, Samir S. (1 January 2023), Long, Sarah S. (ed.), “198 – Ureaplasma urealyticum”, Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (Sixth Edition), Philadelphia: Elsevier, pp. 1048–1050.e3, ISBN 978-0-323-75608-2, retrieved 30 September 2025{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)
  2. ^ J.P. Euzéby. “Ureaplasma”. List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  3. ^ Sayers; et al. “Ureaplasma”. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  4. ^ “The LTP”. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  5. ^ “LTP_all tree in newick format”. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  6. ^ “LTP_10_2024 Release Notes” (PDF). Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  7. ^ “GTDB release 09-RS220”. Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  8. ^ “bac120_r220.sp_labels”. Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  9. ^ “Taxon History”. Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 10 May 2024.