A patient has a serious respiratory infection. A sputum sample yielded a bacterium that did not have any peptidoglycan. You hypothesize that the identity of this microbe could possibly be ________.
A. Mycobacterium tuberculosis
B. Staphylococcus aureus
C. Borrelia burgdorferi
D. Mycoplasma pneumoniae
E. Streptococcus pneumoniae
Answer: D
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