The prevalence of Mycoplasma hominis in Outpatients at a Tertiary Care Hospital in East India.

Introduction is the first Mycoplasma isolated from humans in the year 1937. Though regarded as a commensal of the urogenital tract, it has been implicated in various genital and extra-genital infections namely bacterial vaginosis, cervicitis, pelvic inflammatory diseases, pyelonephritis, premature rupture of the membrane in pregnancy, infertility, sepsis in newborns, etc. The pathogenesis, prevalence, and epidemiology of genital mycoplasmas in general and in particular in Indian women have been studied very minimally.