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Herbert W. Horne, Jr, MD
Harvard Medical School Cambridge, Mass

JAMA. 1986;256(5):591-592.

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To the Editor.—

May I commend you for your April 4, 1986, issue and its recognition of sexually transmitted diseases as an important and growing problem in our society. However, in neglecting to include studies on the genital mycoplasmas, you have over-looked a possibly more important cause of pelvic inflammatory disease with its devastating social ramifications. One of the genital mycoplasmas was recognized officially as the third on a list of sexually transmitted diseases published by the National Institutes of Health in 1979 (publication 79-909). It is unfortunate that researchers studying Chlamydia trachomatis infections did not consider the importance of simultaneous cultures for other microorganisms.

In a study reported at the recent Pan American Conference on Infertility, we presented the results of cultures and antibodies obtained from 100 consecutive infertile female patients in my private practice; gonorrhea, syphilis, mycoplasmas, Chlamydia, Epstein-Barr virus, herpes types 1 and 2, and the acquired . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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