Mycoplasmemia in adult male patients.
Mycoplasma hominis mycoplasmemia was associated with obstruction, manipulation, or surgery of the genitourinary tract in five adult men. A four-fold increase in specific antibody titer against M hominis was demonstrated in serial convalescent serum obtained from one patient. Two patients became afebrile after treatment with tetracycline; a third recovered without therapy for a Mycoplasm infection. The two remaining patients died of thier underlying diseases.
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D001769:Blood / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009174:Mycoplasma / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification; D009175:Mycoplasma Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D018805:Sepsis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012737:Sex Factors; D014570:Urologic Diseases / Q000150:complications
D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial