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What is the smallest bacterial cell? Is it Dialister pneumosintes or mycoplasma

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Mycoplasma genitalium is the smallest bacterial cell with a size of 200 to 300 nm. It is categorised as a ultramicrobacterium, which also includes rickettsia and chlamydia.

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