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Urogenital infection with M. pneumoniae documented: persistent symptoms.(News)
OTTAWA--The list of pathogens that produce clinically significant disease in the female urogenital tract should be expanded to include Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
This pathogen, which most commonly infects the lower respiratory tract, was isolated using polymerase chain reaction (PCP,) amplification from the urogenital tract in 55 women with persistent genitourinary complaints, Dr. O. Hsueh said at a congress of the International Society for Sexually Transmitted Diseases Research.
Over a 4-year period, 58 specimens from these women were positive for M. pneumoniae. Of the 55 women in the series, 24 (43.6%) had cervicitis. Nine (16.4%) had cervicitis plus urinary tract symptoms and another nine had urinary tract symptoms alone.
A history of spontaneous abortion was obtained from seven (12.7%) and infertility from three (5.5%), said Dr. Hsueh of the Public Health Laboratory, Ottawa. Insufficient information was available for the patients from whom the remaining ...
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