Eperythrozoon
| Eperythrozoon | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Bacillati |
| Phylum: | Mycoplasmatota |
| Class: | Mollicutes |
| Order: | Mycoplasmoidales |
| Family: | Mycoplasmoidaceae |
| Genus: | Eperythrozoon Schilling 1928 (Approved Lists 1980) |
| Synonyms | |
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Heterotypic
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Eperythrozoon is a genus of bacteria in the family Mycoplasmoidaceae. Members of this family live inside red blood cells and are largely unculturable. As a result, many species are Candidatus. Under the old understanding of this genus as a phylogenetically divergent group under Mycoplasma, the included bacteria are also known as hemoplasmas or hemotrophic mycoplasmas.