Treatment efficacy, treatment failures and selection of macrolide resistance in patients with high load of Mycoplasma genitalium during treatment of male urethritis with josamycin

Table 1 Symptoms/signs, polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMNLs), and detected STI etiological agents in males (n = 320) attending an STI clinic in Moscow, Russia, from December 2006 to January 2008

Clinical characteristics	Number of patients	Chlamydia trachomatispositive	Mycoplasma genitaliumpositive^a	Neisseria gonorrhoeaepositive	Trichomonas vaginalispositive
Symptoms/signs and	222	75	40	27	6
PMNLs ≥5
Symptoms/signs and	0	0	0	0	0
PMNLs <5
No symptoms/signs and	49	27	6	2	3
PMNLs ≥5
No symptoms/signs and	49	8	5	0	0
PMNLs <5
Total	320	110	51	29	9

^aFour patients positive for M. genitalium as well as some additional STI etiological agent, i.e. C. trachomatis (n = 2), T. vaginalis (n = 1), and Herpes simplex virus type 2 (n = 1), were excluded.