Author:
Rakhmatullina M R,Kirichenko S V
Abstract
The authors disclose current concepts of the taxonomic and morphologic characteristics of genital mycoplasmas and their role in the development of inflammatory urogenital diseases and reproductive disorders. They also discuss such issues as genetic variability of genital mycoplasmas and possible interrelation with different variants of the clinical course of inflammatory processes in the urogenital tract.
Publisher
Rossijskoe Obschestvo Dermatovenerologov i Kosmetologov
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Dermatology
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