Study on the mycoplasma infection status between healthy women and women with gential tract inflammation / 中华流行病学杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To study and compare the pathogenicity and pathogenic condition of Ureaplasma urealyticum (Uu) and Mycoplasma homonis (Mh) between healthy women and women with gential tract inflammation.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>To collect the gential tract secretion in the two groups and detect the infectious ratio and color change unit ( CCU) concentration. Together with data gathered from questionnaires, we studied the mycoplasma infectious status between the two kinds of people.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The positive rate was 76. 1 % in women with gential inflammation, higher than in healthy women whose positive rate was 42.2% (chi(2) = 45.1862, P< 0.0001). Mixed infection of Uu and Mh was popular in infected women. Healthy women were easier to be infected by Uu or Mh( Uu, Uu + Mh X(2) = 39.5956, P< 0.0001; Mh,Uu + Mh X(2)= 13.2935, P= 0.0003). The result of CCU concentration showed the infected concentration in women with gential tract inflammation was higher than healthy women(Uu Z = 7. 1058, P< 0.0001; Mh Z= 8.7201, P< 0.0001). Uu and Mh were commonl sensitively in every age.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Both Uu and Mh were conditioned pathogens. The two kinds of mycoplasma had cooperated pathogenic effects which was easily leading to clinical symptom in the high infectious concentration.</p>