ReviewCurrent infectious disease reports2018
Ureaplasma urealyticum: the Role as a Pathogen in Women's Health, a Systematic Review.
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- The Associations of Genital Mycoplasmas with Female Infertility and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2021Pooled it
- Lived experience and clinical need of women of reproductive age with Ureaplasma urealyticum infection: a qualitative study.Annals of medicine · 2025Article
- Non-genitourinary Ureaplasma urealyticum infections in solid organ transplant recipients: a case report and literature review.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Review
- Clinical approach to sexually transmitted infections and pelvic inflammatory disease in women with acute pyelonephritis.The Korean journal of internal medicine · 2025Article
- Characteristics of vaginal microbiota in pregnant women with cervical insufficiency and its association with adverse pregnancy outcomes.Pakistan journal of medical sciences · 2025Article
- U. Parvum serovars exhibit distinct pathogenicity in Chinese women of childbearing age: a multicentre cross-sectional study.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Clinical and uterine cervix characteristics of women with Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma in genital discharge.Revista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992) · 2024Article
- Refractory Bilateral Tubo-Ovarian Abscesses in a Patient with Iatrogenic Hypogammaglobulinemia.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Modeling an ascending infection by Ureaplasma parvum and its cell signaling and inflammatory response at the feto-maternal interface.American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) · 2023Article
- Sexually Transmitted Infections Prevalence and Cascade of Care among Undocumented Sex Workers: A Twenty-Year-Long Experience.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Prevalence and antibiotics resistance ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Investigation of the association between ten pathogens causing sexually transmitted diseases and high-risk human papilloma virus infection in Shanghai.Molecular and clinical oncology · 2021Article
- A Review ofFrontiers in veterinary science · 2021Review
- Infection Prevalence and Antibiotic Resistance Levels inThe Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale · 2021Article
- Septic arthritis of the shoulder due to Ureaplasma urealyticum after emergency caesarean section: a case report.BMC infectious diseases · 2020Article
- Prevalence of Ureaplasma urealyticum, Chlamydia trachomatis, and Neisseria gonorrhoeae in gynecological outpatients, Taizhou, China.Journal of clinical laboratory analysis · 2020Article
- Chlamydia trachomatis and the Risk of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, Ectopic Pregnancy, and Female Infertility: A Retrospective Cohort Study Among Primary Care Patients.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2019Article
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Abstract
purpose of reviewTo evaluate the role of Ureaplasma urealyticum as a genital pathogen in women's health. Three aspects were analyzed: (1) preterm delivery (PTD); (2) female infertility; and (3) lower genital tract pathology including pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), cervicitis, and genital discomfort (discharge, burning). RECENT
findingsA systematic review was performed. Searching PUBMED and EMBASE for published articles from January 2003 to September 2017 using the key word "Ureaplasma urealyticum" yielded 1835 manuscripts. These were further screened using defined inclusion criteria: (1) original peer-reviewed observational studies; (2) English language; (3) U. urealyticum was specifically isolated; (4) present "cases"/"exposed" and "controls"/"unexposed" to enable calculating an association between U. urealyticum and the outcome studied. Altogether, 32 studies were included that underwent quality scoring based on methodology, sample size, study population, and method of identification of U. urealyticum. The association of U. urealyticum and PTD was inconsistent between the studies. Eight of the ten prospective studies failed to show an association between U. urealyticum and PTD, yet four of the six case control studies found a positive association. Regarding female infertility and genital discomfort, five of the six studies for each of these topics failed to find an association. Only two studies met the inclusion criteria for cervicitis with conflicting conclusions. Unfortunately, none of the studies met the inclusion criteria for PID. It seems that U. urealyticum has a limited role as a pathogen in female infertility, cervicitis, PID, and genital discomfort. The role as a pathogen in PTD is unclear and future studies are needed to address this issue.
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