Testing for Urogenital Mycoplasmas

Dr. Larry Bernstein is an expert in clinical pathology and is recognized in the Clinical Laboratory Industry with numerous publications and professional presentations. His expertise was gained from a variety laboratory positions including his current position at Norwalk Hospital as Chief of Blood Bank and previously Chief of Clinical Pathology at NY Methodist Hospital, and Chief of Clinical Chemistry and Chief of Blood Bank at Bridgeport Hospital for over 25 years.

Mycoplasma is a commensal organism of which two, Ureaplasma urealyticum (U.u) and Mycoplasma hominis (M.h.) have most commonly been isolated from the human urogenital tract.  With the Mycoplasma genitalium (M.g.), a recently new isolated mycoplasma species, they are frequently responsible for sexually transmitted disease (STD) among young people in the United States, but not more common than Chlamydia as a cause of nongonococcal urethritis in men (especially in the case of M.g. or U.u. infections).

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