High Prevalence of Multidrug-Resistant Mycoplasma genitalium in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Men Who Have Sex With Men in Alabama

Clin Infect Dis. 2018 Feb 10;66(5):796-798. doi: 10.1093/cid/cix853.

Abstract

We tested for Mycoplasma genitalium in 157 HIV-infected men. Urogenital and rectal prevalence were 10.8% and 6.4%. Macrolide resistance mutations were detected in 70.6% and 80% of urogenital and rectal samples, and fluoroquinolone resistance mutations in 26.7% and 40%, respectively.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Alabama / epidemiology
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology
  • Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial*
  • HIV Infections / complications*
  • HIV Infections / epidemiology*
  • Homosexuality, Male
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mycoplasma Infections / epidemiology*
  • Mycoplasma Infections / microbiology*
  • Mycoplasma genitalium / drug effects*
  • Prevalence

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents