A client has a serious respiratory infection.A random sample of sputum was taken from the patient coughing up blood.The lab technician said they had isolated a bacterium that did not have any peptidoglycan.You hypothesize that the identity of this microbe could possibly be

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a bacterium that does not have peptidoglycan in its cell wall. It is known to cause respiratory infections, such as pneumonia. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is also known to cause respiratory infections, but it does have peptidoglycan in its cell wall. Borrelia burgdorferi is a spirochete bacterium that causes Lyme disease and does not have a cell wall similar to peptidoglycan. Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus both have peptidoglycan in their cell walls.

A Client Has a Serious Respiratory Infection