A patient has a serious lung infection. A sputum sample was taken. The lab technician stated that the lab isolated a bacterium that did not have any peptidoglycan. You hypothesize that the identity of this microbe could possibly be __________.

A) Mycobacterium tuberculosis
B) Mycoplasma pneumoniae
C) Streptococcus pneumoniae
D) Borrelia burgdorferi
E) Haemophilus influenzae


B) Mycoplasma pneumoniae

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