Table 1.

Description of Ureaplasma clinical isolates

Specimen type	Group description	No. of isolates
Control groups
Vaginal swabs	Healthy pregnant females	169
Placental tissue collected at cesarean section in women with intact fetal membranes	Females without histologic chorioamnionitis	42
Catheterized urine	Males with neurogenic bladder without urethritis	25
Endotracheal aspirate	Preterm infants without bronchopulmonary dysplasia	108
Diseased groups
Endometrial biopsy tissue	Females with pelvic inflammatory disease and/or postpartum endometritis	85
Placental tissue collected at cesarean section in women with intact fetal membranes	Females with histologic chorioamnionitis	18
Endotracheal aspirate	Preterm infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia	88
Urethral swab or urine	Males with nongonococcal urethritis from Canada	421
Urethral swab or urine	Males with nongonococcal urethritis from the United States	81
Blood, cerebrospinal fluid, synovial fluid, pleural fluid, lung tissue	Invasive isolates from various patient groups, including adults and children	24
Total		1,061