Long Duration of Asymptomatic Mycoplasma genitalium Infection After Syndromic Treatment for Nongonococcal Urethritis

Role of Mycoplasma genitalium and Ureaplasma urealyticum in acute and chronic nongonococcal urethritis.

One hundred fourteen heterosexual men with acute nongonococcal urethritis (NGU) and 64 patients without NGU were studied. We determined that Chlamydia trachomatis and Mycoplasma genitalium were strongly associated with acute NGU after controlling, by means of multivariate analysis, for age, race, sexual lifestyle, and coinfection (odds ratio [OR], 13.0, 95% confidence interval [CI], 2.6-64.5; a...

T-strains of mycoplasma and nongonococcal urethritis.

Since the isolation by Dienes and Esdall (1937) of a strain of Mycoplasma from a patient with a Bartholin's gland abscess, numerous attempts have been made to provide definite proof of the aetiological role of Mycoplasma in urogenital tract infections, especially nongonococcal urethritis (NGU). Most of the earlier studies were concerned with Mycoplasma hominis, but it now appears that this spec...

Induced macrolide resistance in Mycoplasma genitalium isolates from patients with recurrent nongonococcal urethritis.

Mycoplasma genitalium accounts for as much as 15 to 20% of cases of male nongonococcal urethritis (NGU) (7). It is also implicated in female cervicitis and increasingly so in pelvic inflammatory disease (3). Since it is a fastidious microorganism that is very difficult to culture, nucleic acid amplification tests (NAAT) have become invaluable in its detection and microbiological evaluation. Cur...

Mycoplasma genitalium: a cause of male urethritis?

BACKGROUND Male urethritis may be caused by mycoplasmas. Since Mycoplasma genitalium has previously been isolated from the urethra of two men with non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU), it was the aim of the study further to elucidate its role by measuring the prevalence of this organism in men with NGU. MATERIAL AND METHODS The polymerase chain reaction was used. Two different sequences of the gen...

Spontaneous Regression of Untreatable Mycoplasma genitalium Urethritis.