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In 1954, Maurice Shepard1 first described T-stain mycoplasma (T for tiny) in the genitourinary tract of males with non-gonococcal urethritis (‘non-specific urethritis’) in his military population. Gnarpe and Friberg2,3 and the present authors4 in the early 1970s pioneered the concept of T-stain mycoplasma (now offically called Ureaplasma urealyticum, or UU) in association with human infertility and reproduction wastage. It was at this time that we first became aware of the already extensive appreciation by our veterinary colleagues of the role of mycoplasma infection in fertility problems in animals5.
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Horne, H.W., Kundsin, R.B. (1984). Resistant Ureaplasma urealyticum in infertile patients: a proposed method of treatment. In: Harrison, R.F., Bonnar, J., Thompson, W. (eds) Diagnosis and Management of Tubo-Uterine Factors in Infertility. Studies in Fertility and Sterility, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7621-7_15
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