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L-form bacteria

From MEpedia, a crowd-sourced encyclopedia of ME and CFS science and history

L-form bacteria or L-forms are bacteria without cell walls.[1]

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L-forms divide and multiplicity in ways unlike other bacteria. L-forms use:

  • membrane blebbing
  • tubulation
  • vesiculation
  • fission

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