Relevant prevalence of Mycoplasma hominis and Ureaplasma urealyticum serogroups in HIV-1 infected men without urethritis symptoms

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo

Caio Mauricio Mendes Cordova¹  Regina A. F. Cunha¹ 

[1] ,Universidade de São Paulo Faculdade de Ciências FarmacêuticasSP ,Brazil

关键词: Mycoplasma;    M. hominis;    U. urealyticum;    HIV;    Sexually transmitted diseases;    Urethritis;    PCR;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0036-46652000000400002

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

M. hominis and U. urealyticum are the better-known mycoplasma species pathogenic to the human genitourinary tract, causing mainly urethritis, bacterial vaginosis and pregnancy complications. In HIV-infected patients, the prevalence and role of these species is still not well known. The aim of this work was to determinate the prevalence of these species in this group of male patients (HIV group), in comparison to a group of men with clinical symptoms of urethritis (STD group). M. hominis was isolated from 7.5% patients (8/106) and U. urealyticum from 18.9% patients (20/106) from the HIV group, being among these 62.5% and 85% in significant concentrations, respectively. In the STD group these rates were 0.9% (1/110) for M. hominis and 13.6% (15/110) for U. urealyticum, being 100% and 93.3% in significant concentrations, respectively. We could demonstrate infection rates by these mycoplasma species in the HIV group as high as the one found in the STD one, what may indicate the occurrence of opportunistic infections in our population. This fact is discussed here because in immunosuppressed patients, specially M. hominis has been reported causing severe infections, even systemically.

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