Controlled study of the prevalence of T strain mycoplasmata in males with non-gonococcal urethritis.
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Shepard (1956) and Shepard, Alexander, Lunceford, and Campbell (1964) reported the isolation from men with non-gonococcal urethritis of a species of mycoplasma which formed very small colonies on culture. The organisms were isolated from 86 per cent. of 79 men in the first study and from 51 per cent. of 64 men in the second. This organism was subsequently called T strain mycoplasma. Ford, Rasmussen, and Minken (1962) and Ford and Duvernet (1963) found that whereas T strain mycoplasmata were isolated from 60 to 79 per cent. of patients with non-gonococcal urethritis, they were found in only 21 to 48 per cent. of normal males. Similar findings were reported by Csonka, Williams, and Corse (1966). These findings suggested that T strain mycoplasma could be an aetiological agent in non-gonococcal urethritis. However, these organisms were also isolated from control groups of patients and the proportions of controls who have yielded this organism have varied considerably. This variation was possibly due to differences in the age and social characteristics of the control groups studied and to difference in the methods used for collecting specimens from the different groups. The present study was undertaken in order to compare the prevalence of T strain mycoplasma in patients suffering from non-gonococcal urethritis and in comparable groups of males not suffering from this disease.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The British journal of venereal diseases
دوره 42 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1966