Wound Infection With Mycoplasma hominis

Abstract

Mycoplasma hominis<i>was isolated from two patients with infected wounds following open reduction of fractured mandibles</i>. The<i>significance of these organisms in wound infections is discussed</i>. Mucoplasma hominis,<i>unlike other human mycoplasmas, can be cultured in a diagnostic bacteriology laboratory using standard bacteriological methods</i>.