| isolation of mycoplasma hominis from genital ulcerations of patients in eastern and southern africa. | in three separate surveys involving 413 patients in mbabane (swaziland), nairobi (kenya), and carletonville (south africa), mycoplasma hominis was isolated from the base of ulcers in 41 (16%) of 251 men with genital ulcer disease. antibodies to m. hominis were detected by indirect hemagglutination in 89 (51%) of 176 such patients. of these male patients, 15% and 6% had indirect hemagglutinating antibodies at titers of greater than or equal to 160 and greater than or equal to 640, respectively. t ... | 1983 | 6689381 |
| microbial aetiology and diagnostic criteria of postpartum endometritis in nairobi, kenya. | using a protected triple lumen device, neisseria gonorrhoeae or chlamydia trachomatis, or both, were isolated from the endometriums of five out of 35 women with clinical postpartum endometritis compared with none of a control group of 30 puerperal women without endometritis (p less than 0.05) in nairobi, kenya. these sexually transmitted agents were also found in 12 cervical specimens from women with and three without postpartum endometritis (p = 0.04). mycoplasma hominis and ureaplasma urealyti ... | 1988 | 3137152 |