Mycoplasmas

Mycoplasmas and bacteria in synovial fluid from patients with arthritis.

“…Decker, 1966;Sharp, 1971). This has encouraged attempts to demonstrate mycoplasmas also in arthritic conditions in man, but the overall picture of the results of these studies is confusing; the reported recovery rates of mycoplasmas in series of synovial fluid or tissue have varied from zero to 100 per cent., and animal mycoplasma species have been reported in human joint specimens (Table I).…”