Mycoplasma genitalium
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Nov 7, 2026
DavidHOST
oral gonorrhea
RobertGUEST
and mycoplasma genitalium and trichomonas.
RobertGUEST
And so mycoplasma genitalium is one of these that's been a topic of conversation recently.
RobertGUEST
And it is a very quickly growing nationally in terms of, of infections, but not in reality.
RobertGUEST
It actually grows quite slowly in your body.
RobertGUEST
And those screenings are very conserved.
RobertGUEST
For example, for me as a heterosexual male, I don't need to be screened for gonorrhea or chlamydia at all.
RobertGUEST
And so when people look at those guidelines and they say, well, the federal government doesn't recommend screening for mycoplasma genitalium, so why would anybody do it? It's like, well, the federal government hardly recommends screenings at all.
Lara PoznakGUEST
When we're asking for feasibility at their particular clinic, they'll give us what is their best guess, not necessarily based on the actual numbers that they have.
Lara PoznakGUEST
And Missy, this is to you because you've told me multiple times before that It's a very manual pulling of numbers type situation where if I say, how many Mgen do you have coming in? Or how many chlamydia do you have coming in? And they have to physically go from patient record to patient record to patient record.
Lara PoznakGUEST
And that is insanely time consuming.
Lara PoznakGUEST
And we'll just get best guesses, I think.
David Freeman PowellGUEST
So if you got somebody who came in, they had these symptoms, you test them for chlamydia gonorrhea, they didn't have a positive result.
David Freeman PowellGUEST
you then think, and they fell in, they either had an NSU or epididymal orchitis, so swollen testes or pelvic inflammation disease, you then think about testing them for MGEN.
David Freeman PowellGUEST
But also people who may be, um, had recurrent symptoms after treatment.
David Freeman PowellGUEST
And that was quite an interesting one, because that's definitely an organism where there's a azithromycin resistance, which is probably a big knock-on from chlamydia screening.
DanHOST
I think if we're going to push safety in the lifestyle and safety in the community, I think more people need to go get those.
DanHOST
I know my status type where they're getting for tested for Mgen.
DanHOST
They're getting throat swab type test because I bet you it, you know, if you want to throw a percentage on that, I bet it's a very low percentage of people in the lifestyle.
DanHOST
Yeah,
Jessie-Anne El-TannouryGUEST
And we haven't even touched on ureaplasma and mycoplasma as well.
Jessie-Anne El-TannouryGUEST
I think that's becoming more routinely screened, especially now with Mgen being more routinely screened the last few years.
Jessie-Anne El-TannouryGUEST
But even looking at a seminal microbiome for that, because we can identify molecules in the seminal microbiome too, which...
Jessie-Anne El-TannouryGUEST
We're starting to gain more of an understanding around ureaplasma and its impact on potential miscarriage.
JosieHOST
And so I went to the doctor and I said, I've been exposed.
JosieHOST
I want to be tested specifically for Mgen because I was exposed to Mgen.
JosieHOST
So they tested me and they gave me antibiotics, which that was a two antibiotic back to back 17 days in a row of antibiotics.
JosieHOST
Okay.
JosieHOST
Okay.
JosieHOST
So that's something that can spread from female to female, but isn't like you can't contract it from a woman if you're a guy, but you can spread it to another woman anyway.
JosieHOST
So I was convinced I had Mgen, not BV, and Zach did some research on the test that they had actually done, and it's actually impossible to determine whether I had Mgen or BV based on the type of test they did.
AJGUEST
Interesting.