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Mycoplasma pneumoniae gliding motility

Species name: Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Daisuke Nakane

The Mycoplasma pneumonia is gliding on the surface of host by using motile machinery existing at one polar of bacterial cell. The image of Mycoplasma, a pathogenic pneumonia bacterium, shown in this video is obtained by real-time phase contrast microscopy.

(2012.09.18)

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