Epidemiological study of Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma cultures in a laboratory in Middle West Santa Catarina State
Keywords:
Sexually Transmitted Infections, Ureaplasma urealyticum, Mycoplasma hominis, Chlamydia trachomatisAbstract
Following the advent of HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, and the emergence of prophylactic campaigns to halt its spread, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), associated or not with HIV, are now being intensively studied and monitored. Microorganisms considered harmless have become of clinical and epidemiological relevance, which is the case of Mycoplasmas, bacteria that are relatively little studied, but with great pathogenic potential, and which should be highly relevant because they are associated with pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and infertility, among others. The objective of this study was to analyze the incidence of Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma in patients from a clinical diagnostic laboratory in the Midwest of Santa Catarina State, Brazil. The data collection was documentary, using detailed results of all mycoplasma tests results performed in the laboratory between January 2008 and December 2018. The data were compiled in Microsoft Excel® composing a detailed worksheet, from which were performed crossings and contingency tables, allowing a descriptive analysis. The results show a total infection rate of 21.8% of patients (n=878) for Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma, with an infection prevalence in the ages of 13 to 19 years (28.6%) and 55 to 63 years (25%), surpassing indexes found in the literature. The association with chlamydia occurred in 18,2% of the patients, corroborating similar studies. Conclusion is that the mycoplasma infections in the region analyzed deserve attention by the public health organs, suggesting the research of similar studies in clinical diagnoses laboratories, aiming to compose a state or national database that supply data for public policies.
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