background : as prenatal screening for sexually transmitted infections and treatment of infected pregnant women is not routinely performed in iran and prevalence of two sexually transmitted pathogens, chlamydia trachomatis and mycoplasma genitalium , in sabzevar (east of iran) is unknown, we decided to perform this prospective study. methods : one hundred ninety-six urine specimens of pregnant ...

contagious agalactia (ca) is a serious disease syndrome of sheep and goats that is characterized by mastitis, arthritis, keratoconjunctivitis and, occasionally, abortion. mycoplasma (m.) agalactiae is the main cause of the disease in sheep and goats. the aim of the present study was to detect m. agalactiae in conjunctival, synovial fluid, nasal, ear and milk samples in sheep herds with or wi...

background: ureaplasma urealyticum is known as a sexually transmitted agent, causing mainly urethritis, pelvic int1ammatory disease, spontaneous abortion, pyelonephritis, infertility, stillbirth, low birth weight neonatal meningititis, and neonatal pneumonia. u. urealyticum infections not only jeopardize fertility but also pose a risk for infertility treatment and resulting pregnancies. diagnos...

results among 100 samples from infertile males, the presence of genus mycoplasma was confirmed in 45 cases of which 15 cases were infected with m. hominis. among 100 samples from infertile female, the presence of genus mycoplasma was confirmed in 43 cases of which 18 case were infected with m. hominis. the positive samples were sequenced and the phylogenetic tree was plotted. conclusions the re...

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Although Mycoplasma equigenitalium has been implicated in equine reproductive problems, its prevalence is largely unexplored due to the lack of specific diagnostic tests. To address this limitation, the authors developed and optimized species-specific primer pairs that target M. eguigenitalium rpoB (RNA polymerase B subunit) gene sequences. The specificity of the PCR assay developed in this stu...

mycoplasmosis is one of the most important diseases in the poultry industry. its causative agent, mycoplasma has various species, which two of them, mycoplasma gallisepticum (mg) and mycoplasma synoviae (ms) are the most important species. due to the enormous losses in the production farms of industrial poultry, achieving a rapid, accurate and definite diagnosis of mycoplasma is of great import...

Hemoplasmas is the trivial name given to a group of erythrocyte-parasitizing bacteria of the genus Mycoplasma. Of the feline hemoplasmas, Mycoplasma haemofelis is the most pathogenic, while "Candidatus Mycoplasma haemominutum" and "Candidatus Mycoplasma turicensis" are less pathogenic. Shotgun libraries of fragmented M. haemofelis genomic DNA were constructed, and random colonies were selected ...

Mycoplasma contamination of eukaryotic cell cultures is a common and widely recognised problem, estimated to affect 15–80% of all long term cell lines [1]. Infection with mycoplasmas can lead to a variety of effects such as impaired growth [2], chromosome abnormalities [3], enzyme inhibition [4], proteolytic degradation [5], B-lymphocyte proliferation [6], cytokine induction [7] and superantige...

The natural transmission routes of the three feline haemotropic mycoplasmas--Mycoplasma haemofelis, 'Candidatus Mycoplasma haemominutum', and 'Candidatus Mycoplasma turicensis' (CMt)--are largely unknown. Since CMt has been detected in the saliva of infected cats using PCR, we hypothesised that direct transmission via social or aggressive contact may occur. The aim of this study was to evaluate...