Infections humaines a mycoplasmes

The other mycoplasma species are mainly responsible for infections of the urogenital tract. M. genitalium is the second agent of non gonococcal urethritis after Chlamydia trachomatis. Ureaplasma spp. is also involved in chronic urethritis but can be present, like M. hominis but more often, as a commensal of the lower genital tract. All species are responsible for infections of the genital tract of women. Ureaplasma spp. and M. hominis, other species rarely, are involved in infections in immunocompromised patients. The only method adapted to the detection of M. genitalium, a very fastidious mycoplasma, is amplification technique. The other species can relatively easily be detected by culture but the main problem is to interpret the results because of their possible presence as commensals.