Ureaplasma urealyticum
Ureaplasma urealyticum
Characteristics
- Opportunistic pathogen
Reservoirs
· Humans (only reservoir, normal flora of the female genital tract)
Transmission
· Sexual
Toxins
- None in particular
Diseases
In Males
- Second most common cause of non-gonococcal urethritis (after
- Chlamydia trachomatis)
- Prostatitis and epididymitis
In Females
- Second most common cause of non-gonococcal urethritis and
- cervicitis (after Chlamydia trachomatis)
- pelvic inflammatory disease, tuboovarian abscesses, ectopic
- pregnancies and infertility
In Both Males and Females
- cystitis and pyelonephritis
- wound infections (primarily if surgical)
- infective arthritis
- septicemia
In Neonates
- neonatal interstitial pneumonitis
- neonatal meningitis
- septicemia
Treatment
- Tetracyclines in conjunction with third generation cephalosporins
- (if non-gonococcal urethritis and/or cervicitis, due to the possibility
- that the urethritis and/or cervicitis may be of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and/or Chlamydia trachomatis origin)
- Tetracycline (if all other diseases)