The role of mycoplasmas in non-gonococcal urethritis: a review.

Incidence of T-strain mycoplasmas in male and female subjects attending a venereal diseases clinic.

on agar medium and have subsequently been referred to as T-strain mycoplasmas or T-mycoplasmas. Shepard (1956) noted that T-strain mycoplasmas were present in a high proportion of patients with non-gonococcal urethritis, and it was suggested that the organisms played a part in the aetiology of that disease. Because of the increasing prevalence of non-gonococcal urethritis, this hypothesis has s...

Studies on T-strain mycoplasmas in nongonococcal urethritis.

Prevalence of Urogenital Mycoplasmas Among Men with NGU in Upper Silesia, Poland. Preliminary Study.

The prevalence of urogenital mycoplasmas in men with NGU in Upper Silesia (Poland) was studied. Mycoplasmas were detected in 36.7% men (Ureaplasma parvum and Mycoplasma genitalium were found in 30% and 16.7% respectively). Urealyticum urealyticum was not detected. We suggest including M. genitalium in the diagnostic scheme for nongonococcal urethritis (NGU).

T-strain mycoplasma in non-gonococcal urethritis. Pathogen or commensal?

The term "T-strain" was applied by Shepard (1954) to a strain of mycoplasma which, when cultured on solid agar, shows morphological differences from other members of the species (Shepard, 1956). Shepard (1954) recovered T-strain mycoplasmas from urethral scrapings taken from cases of nongonococcal urethritis (NGU) and later found that this organism was present in some 70 per cent. of such cases...

Doxycycline treatment of nongonococcal urethritis with special reference to T-strain mycoplasmas.