Role of Mycoplasma genitalium and Ureaplasma urealyticum in Acute and Chronic Nongonococcal Urethritis
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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...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1086/319594