A microbiology student has walking pneumonia due to Mycoplasma pneumoniae. He decides to self-medicate with the leftover penicillin tablets he had from his last case of Streptococcus pyogenes. What is the fault in his thought process?
A) Mycoplasma pneumoniae does not possess porins to take in the antibiotic.
B) Penicillin is destroyed due to beta-lactamase production by M. pneumoniae.
C) Penicillin is not routinely used to treat group A Streptococcus pharyngitis.
D) M. pneumoniae does not possess a cell wall.
D
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