Septicemia Due to<i>Mycoplasma hominis</i>Type 1

Abstract

ALTHOUGH mycoplasma (pleuropneumonia-like organisms) have been described principally as animal pathogens recent evidence has indicated that these organisms can be the cause of human illness. The identification of Mycoplasma pneumoniae as the etiologic agent in primary atypical pneumonia demonstrated for the first time the role that these micro-organisms can play in human infection.1 Numerous reports have been made of the recovery of M. hominis Type 1 strains from the normal human genitourinary tract and their more frequent occurrence in association with venereal disease, nonbacterial urethritis, cervicitis and other inflammatory diseases of the genital tract. More recently, M. hominis Type 1 . . .