Mycoplasma hominis infection

The exact role of Mycoplasma hominis (and to a lesser extent Ureaplasma) in regards to a number of conditions related to pregnant women and their (unborn) offspring is controversial.

This is mainly because many healthy adults have genitourinary colonization with Mycoplasma, published studies on pathogenicity have important design limitations and the organisms are very difficult to detect.

The precise role this organism plays in causing disease remains speculative.

[4] Diagnosis remains a challenge because the organism is difficult to culture in vitro.

Therefore, mycoplasmas are not affected by penicillins and other antibiotics that interfere with the cell wall synthesis.