Mycoplasmosis

Mycoplasmosis is an infectious disease caused by mycoplasmas. Respiratory mycoplasmosis resembles acute respiratory infections and pneumonia. Damage to the respiratory system is caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Mycoplasmas themselves easily tolerate penicillin and streptomycin.

Most often, the infection enters the body through the mucous membranes of the respiratory or genitourinary tract and provokes inflammation. Mycoplasmosis is transmitted by airborne droplets or through sexual contact. The incubation period is 4-25 days.

Symptoms of mycoplasmosis

The symptoms of respiratory mycoplasmosis are similar to the syndromes of acute respiratory infections, pneumonia, abacterial (non-gonococcal) urethritis, and gynecological inflammatory diseases. Exudative pharyngitis and rhinopharyngitis are possible. Mycoplasmosis begins with chills, increased body temperature, and symptoms of poisoning.

Mycoplasmosis of the genitourinary organs is caused by mycoplasmas M. hominis and T-mycoplasmas. The most affected by mycoplasmosis are the urethra, paraurethral ducts, seminal vesicles, testicles, epididymis, prostate gland, bladder, and in women also the vagina, small and large vestibular glands, cervix and body of the uterus, fallopian tubes, ovaries, pelvic peritoneum .

The symptoms of this type of mycoplasmosis are similar to those of gonorrhea and trichomoniasis. Possible discharge from the urethra in men, nagging pain in the groin area, perineum, scrotum, enlargement of the appendage, redness of the skin of the scrotum.

Treatment of mycoplasmosis

Mycoplasmosis is difficult to treat, since mycoplasma does not respond to penicillin antibiotics - simply because it has a specific structure - it does not have a cell membrane and therefore is resistant to antibiotics that act specifically on the membrane: penicillins, cephalosporins and a number of others.

There are no home methods for treating mycoplasmosis. Only modern antibacterial drugs are very effective - cure rates reach 95%. It is imperative to treat a regular sexual partner, otherwise there will certainly be a re-infection; resistance to mycoplasmosis does not arise.

Mycoplasmosis is a group of diseases that are caused by pathogens related to Mycoplasma. Mycoplasmas are generally harmful organisms to animals and humans (animals and birds other than beaked birds).

Mycoplasmas have been found in the blood of people, but their presence in the blood is not always a symptom of disease. Mycoplasma pneumoniae was first discovered in 1986, although symptoms of mycoplasma-associated illness may include upper respiratory tract infections, otitis media, sinusitis,