Skip to main content

Lund University Publications

LUND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Sexual risk behaviour in women carriers of Mycoplasma hominis

Elshibly, S ; Kallings, I ; Hellberg, D and Mårdh, Per-Anders LU (1996) In British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 103(11). p.1124-1128
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To study the sexual behaviour of women harbouring Mycoplasma hominis in the vagina. SETTING: Two family planning clinics and a youth clinic for contraceptive advice. METHODS: The vaginal flora of 996 women were investigated microbiologically, including culturing for M. hominis from the posterior vaginal fornix. Cultures and tests were also made to diagnose genital Chlamydia trachomatis infections, gonorrhoea, genital herpes, cervical human papillomavirus infection, trichomoniasis, genital warts and human immunodeficiency virus. The sexual behaviour of these women was investigated by structured in-depth personal interviews. RESULTS: Of the 996 women, 123 (12.3%) harboured M. hominis in the vagina. The remainder (87.7%), who had a... (More)
OBJECTIVE: To study the sexual behaviour of women harbouring Mycoplasma hominis in the vagina. SETTING: Two family planning clinics and a youth clinic for contraceptive advice. METHODS: The vaginal flora of 996 women were investigated microbiologically, including culturing for M. hominis from the posterior vaginal fornix. Cultures and tests were also made to diagnose genital Chlamydia trachomatis infections, gonorrhoea, genital herpes, cervical human papillomavirus infection, trichomoniasis, genital warts and human immunodeficiency virus. The sexual behaviour of these women was investigated by structured in-depth personal interviews. RESULTS: Of the 996 women, 123 (12.3%) harboured M. hominis in the vagina. The remainder (87.7%), who had a negative M. hominis culture, served as a reference group. Those with M. hominis were significantly more likely to have had more than 10 partners during their lifetime, had a greater frequency of more than one sexual partner during the preceding month and the last six months, and reported more frequent experience of "casual sex', including casual "travel sex'. More of them also had experience of group sex and were more likely to have been sexually abused than the women in the reference group. Fewer women with M. hominis had a current steady partner and were less often cohabitors, but more had had sexual intercourse during the previous week than those in the reference group. There was an association between the occurrence of M. hominis and bacterial vaginosis and genital chlamydial infection. Adjustment in multifactorial regression analyses therefore changed the results only marginally. CONCLUSIONS: Women with M. hominis have almost the same sexual risk behaviour as women with classic sexually transmitted diseases. (Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
author
; ; and
publishing date
type
Contribution to journal
publication status
published
subject
in
British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
volume
103
issue
11
pages
1124 - 1128
publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
external identifiers
  • pmid:8917001
  • scopus:0029801337
ISSN
1365-215X
DOI
10.1111/j.1471-0528.1996.tb09595.x
language
English
LU publication?
no
id
59d9dd5b-4c28-4c32-95be-3c216bfe20e9 (old id 1110953)
date added to LUP
2016-04-01 12:36:29
date last changed
2022-01-27 07:22:57
@article{59d9dd5b-4c28-4c32-95be-3c216bfe20e9,
  abstract     = {{OBJECTIVE: To study the sexual behaviour of women harbouring Mycoplasma hominis in the vagina. SETTING: Two family planning clinics and a youth clinic for contraceptive advice. METHODS: The vaginal flora of 996 women were investigated microbiologically, including culturing for M. hominis from the posterior vaginal fornix. Cultures and tests were also made to diagnose genital Chlamydia trachomatis infections, gonorrhoea, genital herpes, cervical human papillomavirus infection, trichomoniasis, genital warts and human immunodeficiency virus. The sexual behaviour of these women was investigated by structured in-depth personal interviews. RESULTS: Of the 996 women, 123 (12.3%) harboured M. hominis in the vagina. The remainder (87.7%), who had a negative M. hominis culture, served as a reference group. Those with M. hominis were significantly more likely to have had more than 10 partners during their lifetime, had a greater frequency of more than one sexual partner during the preceding month and the last six months, and reported more frequent experience of "casual sex', including casual "travel sex'. More of them also had experience of group sex and were more likely to have been sexually abused than the women in the reference group. Fewer women with M. hominis had a current steady partner and were less often cohabitors, but more had had sexual intercourse during the previous week than those in the reference group. There was an association between the occurrence of M. hominis and bacterial vaginosis and genital chlamydial infection. Adjustment in multifactorial regression analyses therefore changed the results only marginally. CONCLUSIONS: Women with M. hominis have almost the same sexual risk behaviour as women with classic sexually transmitted diseases.}},
  author       = {{Elshibly, S and Kallings, I and Hellberg, D and Mårdh, Per-Anders}},
  issn         = {{1365-215X}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{11}},
  pages        = {{1124--1128}},
  publisher    = {{Wiley-Blackwell}},
  series       = {{British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology}},
  title        = {{Sexual risk behaviour in women carriers of Mycoplasma hominis}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-0528.1996.tb09595.x}},
  doi          = {{10.1111/j.1471-0528.1996.tb09595.x}},
  volume       = {{103}},
  year         = {{1996}},
}