Mycoplasma genitalium: Accurate Diagnosis Is Necessary for Adequate Treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mycoplasma genitalium is very difficult to grow in culture but has been more able to be studied for disease associations since the advent of research molecular amplification assays. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and other molecular assays have demonstrated an association with adverse disease outcomes, such as urethritis or nongonococcal urethritis in men and adverse reproductive sequelae in women-for example, cervicitis, endometritis, and pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), including an association with risk for human immunodeficiency virus. The lack of commercially available diagnostic assays has limited widespread routine testing. Increasing reports of high rates of resistance to azithromycin detected in research studies have heightened the need available commercial d

SUBMITTER: Gaydos CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5853520 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature