Genital mycoplasmosis in man.

Abstract

Reports of mycoplasmas associated with human genitoinfectious disease and reproductive failure are accumulating. In most cases, the absence of other isolates that can be implicated makes their association with human infection of the genitourinary tract especially important. Two types of these organisms, the classic large-colony Mycoplasma hominis and the small T strain, may be isolated from the urine and the genital tract. T strains have been implicated by Shepard et al.1 in nongonococcal urethritis in men. Archer2 reported T strains to be far more prevalent in the urine of sexually promiscuous women. The expression of genital mycoplasma infection in women, . . .