The Genital Mycoplasmas

IT has been seven years since human infections with genital mycoplasmas were reviewed in these pages.1 Interest in these organisms has increased considerably with a corresponding increase in our knowledge about them. This article will attempt to evaluate critically this new information and to outline current concepts of the role of these organisms in human disease. For a more detailed consideration, we refer the reader to two recent reviews.2 , 3 In 1937, Dienes and Edsall4 reported the isolation of a mycoplasma, probably Mycoplasma hominis, from an abscess of Bartholin's gland. This was the first reported recovery of a mycoplasma from . . .