====== History ======
  * The discovery of //Mycoplasma//: in France in 1898; Nocard and Roux (with the collaboration of Borrel, Salimbeniet and Dujardin-Beaumetz) named the microbe as "virus péripneumonique" or "agent de la virulence péripneumonique".
  * First paper to describe culture Le microbe de la péripneumonie. Ann Inst Pasteur. 1898; 12:240-62.
  * //Mycoplasma// have had many different names over the years; 1910: //Asterococcus mycoides// Borrel et al in Ann Inst Pasteur 24:167-179, 1911: Coccobacillus Mycoides peripneumoniae Martzinowski in Ann Inst Pasteur 25, 1923: MycromycesperipneumoniaeboviscontagiosaeFrosch in Archiv für wissenschafliche und praklischeTierheilkunde,
  * The first time "//Mycoplasma//" was used was in 1929: //Mycoplasma peripneumoniae// by Julien Nowak (UnivCracovie) Ann Inst Pasteur 43:1330-1352.
  * This name was not kept for long and in 1941: Sabin AB published the first comprehensive effort to classify the "microörganisms of the pleuropneumonia group“ (Bact. Rev 5:1.) in which //Mycoplasma peripneumoniae// is named //Bovimyces pleuropneumoniae//.
  * The most important paper concerning the classification of the pleuropneumonia-like organisms was by Edward and Freundt in 1954, J Gen Microbiol 14:197-207, it was the first paper organising the nomenclature from the order level (Mycoplasmatales) to Family Mycoplasmataceae the genus //Mycoplasma// to the species level with the type species listed as //Mycoplasma mycoides//.