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Mycetoma
Mycetoma (Madura foot) is a chronic fungal or bacterial infection of skin, tissue, and bone acquired by traumatic inoculation, endemic in the tropical Mycetoma Belt, causing painless swellings with draining grains, treatable poorly, a WHO neglected tropical disease since 2016.
Mycetophilidae
Mycetophilidae, the strict fungus gnats, is a family of nematocerous flies in Diptera, Bibionomorpha, Sciaroidea, with about 4,200 to 5,000 described species in over 200 genera; larvae feed on fungi and dead wood.
Mychal Judge
Mychal Judge (1933-2001), born Robert Emmett Judge, was a Franciscan priest and FDNY chaplain from 1992, an AIDS and AA minister, and the first officially recorded 9/11 victim, Victim 0001.
Mychal Kendricks
Mychal Kendricks, born Marvin Mychal-Christopher Kendricks in 1990, is a former NFL linebacker who won Super Bowl LII with the Eagles and played nine seasons.
Mychal Rivera
Mychal Rivera, former NFL tight end (Oakland Raiders 2013-16, No. 81), sixth-round 2013 draft pick from Tennessee; 146 catches, 1,413 yards, 10 touchdowns; later signed by Jacksonville Jaguars.
Mychal Thompson
Mychal Thompson (born 1955, Nassau, Bahamas) is a former NBA center, first overall 1978 draft pick by Portland, two-time Lakers champion (1987, 1988), father of Klay Thompson, and Lakers radio commentator.
Mychal Threets
Mychal Threets, aka Mychal the Librarian, is an American librarian and mental health advocate from Fairfield, California, whose viral TikTok and Instagram videos promoting library joy led to PBS resident librarian and Reading Rainbow host roles and a 2026 picture book.
MyChart
MyChart is the patient portal of Epic Systems, giving patients secure online and mobile access to their medical records, test results, appointments, secure messaging, and bill payment.
Mychel Thompson
Mychel Thompson, born 1988, is an American-Bahamian basketball player and coach, son of Mychal Thompson and brother of Klay Thompson. He played at Pepperdine, appeared in five NBA games with Cleveland in 2011-12, won a 2015 D-League title with Santa Cruz, and later became a Hawks pro scout.
Mycielskian
The Mycielskian of a graph G, also called a Mycielski graph, is a construction from 1955 that raises the chromatic number by one while preserving the clique number.
Mycin
Mycin was a rule-based expert system developed at Stanford University in the early 1970s to help physicians diagnose bacterial infections and select antimicrobial therapy, never deployed clinically.
Myclobutanil
Myclobutanil (Systhane, Rally, Nova), CAS 88671-89-0, is a systemic triazole (Group 3, DMI) fungicide inhibiting ergosterol biosynthesis, used on grapes, apples, and other crops; registered in the US, not approved in the EU.
Myco-heterotrophy in orchids
Myco-heterotrophy in orchids: all orchids germinate on fungal carbon because their seeds lack reserves; some stay fully fungal-fed, while mixotrophic green orchids combine photosynthesis with fungal carbon, detected by 13C, 15N, and 2H isotope enrichment.
Mycobacteriophages
Mycobacteriophages are bacteriophages whose hosts are mycobacteria, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium abscessus. Over 10,000 are isolated, and since 2019 they have treated drug-resistant infections.
Mycobacterium
Mycobacterium is a genus of aerobic, acid-fast bacteria named in 1896, with more than 190 species, including the causes of tuberculosis, leprosy, and Buruli ulcer.
Mycobacterium abscessus
Mycobacterium abscessus (MABC), a rapidly growing nontuberculous mycobacterium in water, soil, and dust; three subspecies; highly drug-resistant; causes cystic fibrosis lung disease and healthcare-associated skin infections; treatment lasts 6–12+ months.
Mycobacterium avium
Mycobacterium avium, also called the avian tubercle bacillus, is a slow-growing nontuberculous mycobacterium with four subspecies (avium, paratuberculosis, silvaticum, hominissuis) causing avian TB, Johne's disease, and most human MAC lung and disseminated infections.
Mycobacterium bovis
Mycobacterium bovis, the bovine tuberculosis bacillus of the M. tuberculosis complex, infects cattle, wildlife, and humans via unpasteurized milk; intrinsically pyrazinamide-resistant; source of the BCG vaccine.
Mycobacterium chelonae
Mycobacterium chelonae (formerly M. chelonei), a rapidly growing nontuberculous mycobacterium first isolated from sea turtles in 1903; soil and tap water organism causing skin, soft tissue, bone, and LASIK keratitis infections, resistant to cefoxitin, susceptible to tobramycin and clarithromycin.
Mycobacterium fortuitum
Mycobacterium fortuitum (Mycolicibacterium fortuitum) is a rapidly growing nontuberculous mycobacterium of soil and water causing procedure-associated skin, soft tissue, bone, and rare lung infections, with lower antibiotic resistance than M. abscessus.
Mycobacterium kansasii
Mycobacterium kansasii, the yellow bacillus first described in 1953, is a slow-growing nontuberculous mycobacterium from tap water that causes upper-lobe fibrocavitary lung disease mimicking tuberculosis, treated with rifampin-based regimens.
Mycobacterium leprae
Mycobacterium leprae, the Hansen bacillus discovered by Gerhard Armauer Hansen in 1873, is an uncultivable, slow-growing mycobacterium causing leprosy, treated with multidrug therapy, with armadillo reservoirs and a sister species M. lepromatosis.
Mycobacterium marinum
Mycobacterium marinum, also called fish tank or swimming pool granuloma agent, is a slow-growing nontuberculous mycobacterium infecting fish and occasionally human skin, and the closest genetic model relative of M. tuberculosis.
Mycobacterium phlei
Mycobacterium phlei (Mycolicibacterium phlei), a saprophytic, rapidly growing, risk group 1 mycobacterium of soil, dust, and plants, described in 1899; genome about 5.3 Mbp with 69.4% GC, studied as a model and immunomodulator.
Mycobacterium smegmatis
Mycobacterium smegmatis is a nonpathogenic, fast-growing mycobacterium whose transformable strain mc²155 made it the model organism for mycobacterial genetics, TB drug discovery, and cell envelope research.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Koch's bacillus, tubercle bacillus) is the aerobic actinobacterium causing tuberculosis; identified by Robert Koch in 1882, it infects about a quarter of humanity and caused 1.23 million deaths in 2024.
Mycobacterium ulcerans
Mycobacterium ulcerans, also called the Buruli ulcer bacillus, is a slow-growing environmental mycobacterium related to M. marinum that produces the toxin mycolactone, causes necrotic skin ulcers in 33 countries, and is treated with 8 weeks of rifampicin-based antibiotics.
Mycobacterium ulcerans infection
Mycobacterium ulcerans infection, or Buruli ulcer (Bairnsdale ulcer), a neglected tropical skin disease caused by a slow-growing mycobacterium whose toxin mycolactone destroys tissue; confirmed by IS2404 PCR, treated with rifampicin plus clarithromycin.
Mycobacterium w (Mycobacterium indicus pranii): Immuvac and Sepsivac
Mycobacterium w, also called Mycobacterium indicus pranii (MIP), is a heat-killed Indian immunomodulatory mycobacterium marketed as Immuvac and Sepsivac, approved for leprosy and trialed for TB prevention and sepsis.
myCobot
myCobot is a series of compact six-axis collaborative robot arms developed by Shenzhen-based Elephant Robotics, aimed primarily at education, research, and maker development since 2020.