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Review Mycoplasma genitalium: An Emerging Cause of Sexually Transmitted Disease in Women 1 2 Chris L. McGowin *, Colin Anderson-Smits 1 Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, 2 Department of Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America Epidemiology and Prevalence of M. genitalium Abstract: Mycoplasma genitalium is an emerging sexu- Infections ally transmitted pathogen implicated in urethritis in men and several inflammatory reproductive tract syndromes After the initial isolation in 1980 [3], few epidemiologic studies in women including cervicitis, pelvic inflammatory of M. genitalium infection were undertaken largely because of disease (PID), and infertility. This comprehensive review difficulties in cultivation of this fastidious organism. Some 10 years critically examines epidemiologic studies of M. genitalium later, the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was first employed for infections in women with the goal of assessing the detection of M. genitalium in patient specimens [6,7], thereby associations with reproductive tract disease and enhanc- facilitating larger investigations of prevalence and associations with ing awareness of this emerging pathogen. Over 27,000 urogenital disease. Using such molecular