Isolation of Ureaplasma urealyticum from urological out patients

Ureaplasma urealyticum was isolated in 25.5 % of the patients with urethritis and in 12.9 % of the patients with prostatitis. The organism was isolated more frequently in non-gonococcal urethritis than in gonorrheal urethritis. It may thus be said that the isolation rate was higher among patients with overt signs or symptoms as compared with the common isolation rate in urine reportedly being about 10%.