Genitourinary mycoplasma. Mycoplasma prostatitis

ABSTRACT

Nineteen patients with the initial diagnosis of chronic nonbacterial prostatitis were screened for mycoplasma infection. Expressed prostatic secretion was examined by the "Mycofast" technique. Positive mycoplasma assays were obtained in 68% of patients. Treatment based on an identibiogram provided in the "Mycofast" produced clinical cure in all patients and bacteriological cure was documented in 5 of them. Search for mycoplasma was warranted in all patients with chronic nonbacterial prostatitis. The "Mycofast" is an inexpensive, fast and reliable technique to detect mycoplasma in genitourinary specimens