Incidence of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease Associated With Mycoplasma genitalium Infection: Evidence Synthesis of Cohort Study Data.

Clin Infect Dis

National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Modelling Methodology and Medical Research Council Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Imperial College London School of Public Health, London, United Kingdom.

Published: December 2020

We synthesized evidence from the POPI sexual-health cohort study and estimated that 4.9% (95% credible interval, .4-14.1%) of Mycoplasma genitalium infections in women progress to pelvic inflammatory disease versus 14.4% (5.9-24.6%) of chlamydial infections. For validation, we predicted PID rates in 4 age groups that agree well with surveillance data.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7744984PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa419DOI Listing

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