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)