Importance of Mycoplasma hominis in acute salpingitis assessed by culture and serological tests.

Antibodies to Chlamydia trachomatis, Mycoplasma hominis, and Neisseria gonorrhoeae in sera from patients with acute salpingitis.

Paired sera from 60 consecutive patients with acute salpingitis, confirmed by laparoscopy, were examined for serum antibodies to Chlamydia trachomatis, Mycoplasma hominis, and Neisseria gonorrhoeae. By a microimmunofluorescence (MIF) test IgM or IgG antibodies to C trachomatis or both were present in sera from 80% of the patients' by indirect haemagglutination (IHA) tests antibodies to M homini...

Serological reactions of Mycoplasma hominis: differences among mycoplasmacidal, metabolic inhibition, and growth agglutination tests.

Seven strains of Mycoplasma hominis from human genital tracts were selected to produce antisera. The complement-dependent mycoplasmacidal (MC) activity and two complement-independent activities, metabolic inhibition (MI) and agglutination during growth (GA), of these sera were compared. The GA and MI tests were equivalent in titer and generally not affected by concentration of antigen; they rev...

Tubal and cervical cultures in acute salpingitis with special reference to Mycoplasma hominis and T-strain mycoplasmas.

Importance of chlamydial antibodies in acute salpingitis in central Africa.

Of 35 women with acute salpingitis on laparoscopy, 86% had chlamydial antibodies at a titre of 1/16 or higher and 49% at a titre of 1/512 or higher. Geometric mean titres of chlamydial antibodies correlated significantly with a laparoscopic observation of chronic salpingitis (p less than 0.001), with a history of infertility (p less than 0.05), and with severe inflammation (p less than 0.10), b...

MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM Detection of Mycoplasma genitalium in women with laparoscopically diagnosed acute salpingitis

Objectives: Mycoplasma genitalium has been associated with cervicitis, endometritis, and tubal factor infertility. Because the ability of this bacterium to ascend and infect the fallopian tube remains undefined, we performed an investigation to determine the prevalence of M genitalium in fallopian tube, endometrial, and cervical specimens from women laparoscopically diagnosed with acute salping...