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 patient that has a serious lung infection, the patient's sputum has been taken for sample and the lab technician stated that the lab isolated a bacterium that has no peptidoglycan. The microbe could possibly be a mycoplasma pneumoniae. A mycoplasma pneumoniae has no peptidoglycan cell wall, meaning, the patient has the microbe of mycoplasma peneumoniae.