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Infection by mycoplasma genitalium or Mgen, has become resistant to all the antibiotics used to treat it and this has increased the concern of doctors because it is linked to infertility, premature births and spontaneous abortions.
This is a drug-resistant bacterium that evades the adaptive immune system establishing an intracellular infection and whose transmission is sexually.
Furthermore, within the multiple conditions that it generates in the human body, it includes inflammation of the cervix and pelvic disease inflammatory.
Currently, bacteria scientists fear that this sexually transmitted infection may soon become a “superbug”, causing even the death of its carriers.
Just three years ago it was available in the United States United States a medical test that allows diagnosing the disease, although it was discovered in London during the decade of 1980.
This infection spreads silently
Studies suggest that only 1 out of 100 American adults have tested positive for Mgen. However, experts also state that 1 in 20 adults could get this spread infection silent during his life.
According to the statements of Professor Paul Hunter, an expert in infectious diseases at the University of East Anglia in England for the Daily Mail, Mgen has “the strongest evidence that it causes adverse health outcomes” of any strain of genital mycoplasma.
Hunter also says that the infection is “difficult to diagnose” among most women, since most will not present any symptoms
, but you will still have it for years.
“Doing something about it is not easy, since the infection is quite common and most infections do not cause adverse health outcomes,” says Hunter, adding that Mgen can often cause pain, bleeding, and inflammation of the s genitalia.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers two screenings for Mycoplasma genitalium, one for men and one for women.
In the case of men, M. genitalium causes symptomatic urethritis, although so far it is unknown what other consequences may affect them.
According to the Daily Mail report there are “growing concerns that Mgen may become untreatable because the STI has developed resistance to antibiotics” such as azithromycin, quinolone, the macrolide or doxycycline.
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