Objectives: Mycoplasma hominis and Ureaplasma species are common commensal inhabitants of the lower genitourinary tract in adolescents and adults who are sexually active. A lot of authors points out that these microorganisms can play an important role in pathology of genital tract like pelvic inflammatory disease, sterility or non-gonococcal urethritis.
Materials And Methods: In the study samples from cervical canal of the uterus were obtained from 222 women. The first group consist of 132 women who were examined in II Gynecological Clinic in Wroclaw for different, probably infectious, gynecological pathologies (adnexitis, sterility, bacterial vaginosis). 90 women without infectious diseases were in a control group. All swabs taken from cervix were tested for Mycoplasma hominis and Ureaplasma urealyticum.
Results: The prevalence of Ureaplasma urealyticum was 31.8% in the first tested group (42 of 132 women were positive) and 8.8% in control group (8 of 90 were positive). 3% (4 of 132) of patients were positive to Mycoplasma hominis in the first group and only 1.1% (1 of 90) in a control group.
Conclusions: Ureaplasma urealyticum was found most often in such genital tract pathologies like acute or recurrent adnexitis, sterility or bacterial vaginosis. No statistically significant correlation was found between the age of the patients and the incidence of mycoplasmas.
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