Prevalence of Chlamydia Trachomatis, Ureaplasma Spp., Mycoplasma Genitalium and Mycoplasma Hominis Among Outpatients in Central Greece: Absence of Tetracycline Resistance Gene Tet(M) over a 4-year Period Study

Overview

Journal New Microbes New Infect

Publisher Elsevier

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2016 Feb 11

PMID 26862428

Citations 9

Authors

A Ikonomidis

C Venetis

D Georgantzis

V Giaslakiotis

V Kolovos

K Efstathiou

M Moschou

E Koutsiaris

M Panopoulou

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Abstract

A total of 301 men and women attending local urologists and gynaecologists in the state of Thessaly, central Greece, were tested for Chlamydia trachomatis, Ureaplasma spp., Mycoplasma genitalium and Mycoplasma hominis DNA. Investigation of the tet(M) gene, which confers tetracycline resistance in these genera, was also performed. Low incidence of C. trachomatis and Mycoplasma spp. as well as high prevalence of Ureaplasma spp., especially among women, were found. The tet(M) gene was absent in all cases, notably in a region where doxycycline administration remains the first therapeutic option unless special medical conditions direct otherwise.

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