Mycoplasma genitalium in the cervices of Japanese women

Article Abstract:

Mycoplasma genitalium may be a cause of nonchlamydial cervicitis or adnexitis in Japanese women. Researchers evaluated 200 Japanese women attending obstetric and gynecology clinics and found that 64 had cervicitis, 53 had adnexitis, and three had both infections. Five of 57 women (8.8%) with cervicitis and two of 49 women (4.1%) with adnexitis were infected with M. genitalium. Eighty asymptomatic pregnant women showed no evidence of M. genitalium infection. M. genitalium may be a cause of genital infection in pregnant women which may then ascend to the upper reproductive organs.

Sexual behavior, Women, Complications and side effects, Japanese, Japanese (Asian people), Urethritis, Nongonococcal, Nongonococcal urethritis

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Mycoplasma genitalium in Males With Nongonococcal Urethritis

Article Abstract:

A microorganism called Mycoplasma genitalium may be the cause of many cases of urethritis in men. Urethritis is an inflammation of the urethra, which carries urine from the bladder. Researchers took urethral swabs from 178 men with symptoms of urethritis and 23 healthy men and tested the samples for Mycoplasma genitalium. Twenty-nine percent of the symptomatic men tested positive compared to only one of the healthy men. In 14% of the symptomatic men, Mycoplasma genitalium was the only organism present. All the men were cured by treatment with either doxycycline or azithromycin.

Care and treatment, Urethritis

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Seroprevalence of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Infection Among Attendees of a Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinic in Italy

Article Abstract:

About one to three million Italians may be infected with herpes simplex virus-2, the cause of genital herpes. Of 919 people who visited a sexually transmitted diseases clinic in Italy, one-fourth of the men and women tested positive for the virus.

Italy, Health aspects, Statistical Data Included, Statistics, Herpes genitalis, Genital herpes

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