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Mycoplasmas recovered from patients with urethritis.

Year: 1973

Type: article

Abstract: Of the many organisms isolated from patients with non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU) and post-gono- coccal urethritis (PGU), mycoplasmas have received considerable attention.Recovery of mycoplasmas from urethral discharge in males was first reported by Smith (1942).Large-colony mycoplasmas, parti- cularly Mycoplasma hominis, have been isolated frequently from cases of NGU.Studies investigating the role of M. hominis in NGU have indicated that it is probably associated with sexual promiscuity rather than disease (Hayflick and Chanock, 1965; Taylor-Robinson, Addey, Hare, and Dunlop, 1969).In contrast, the role of T-strain mycoplasmas in NGU and PGU is unclear.Several investigators have reported an association between T-strain mycoplasmas and NGU (Shepard, 1959; Ford, Rasmussen, and Minken,

Source: Sexually Transmitted Infections

DOI: 10.1136/sti.49.6.524

Authors: D A Hill, R N Philip, A B Greaves, R H Purcell