Prevalence of Certain Urogenital Bacterial Mollicutes in Patients Suffering from Infertility

Table 3

Comparison between primary and secondary infertility in relation to Mollicutes infections.

Parameter	Primary infertility	Secondary infertility
Number of patients	67 (65%)	36 (35%)
Mean age (years)	31.5 ± 0.9	33.7 ± 1.3
Mean period of infertility (years)	5.5 ± 0.5	7.7 ± 0.9
Cases recorded of miscarriage	3 (21.9%)	20 (64.5%)
M. genitalium	5	3
	4.9%	2.9%
M. hominis	13	3
	12.6%	2.9%
U. urealyticum	7	4
	6.8%	3.9%

It is the time (in years) between date of identification of infertility problem and date of collection of specimen from the patient.