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Ureaplasma
Epidemiology:
- found in the human genitourinary tract & occasionally in the pharynx & rectum
Pathology:
1) males
- non-gonococcal urethritis
- prostatitis
2) females
- genitourinary tract infections
- reproductive failure
Laboratory:
- Ureaplasma identified by culture
- micro-aerophilic to anaerobic, non-motile bacteria
- contain no cell walls
- coccoidal in morphology, 0.3 um in diameter
- frequently grow in short filaments
- colonies are 20-30 um in diameter.
- Ureaplasma hydrolyze urea with production of ammonia
- Mycoplasma&Ureaplasma identified by culture
- Ureaplasma DNA [2]
Management:
- azithromycin or doxycycline
Specific
Ureaplasma parvum
Ureaplasma urealyticum
General
Mycoplasmataceae
Properties
KINGDOM: monera
DIVISION: SCHIZOMYCETES
References
- Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999
- Loinc
- Waites KB, Bronze MS
Medscape: Ureaplasma Infection
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/231470-overview