[Mycoplasmatic infections and their role in marital infertility].

Mycoplasmas belong to the large group of microbes and may cause pathologic symptoms in different human organs and systems. The most of them are commensals. They are mostly detected in sexually active persons. Only few of mycoplasmatic species are unquestionable etiological factors of different human infections. They cause illness of respiratory system and kidneys. They are frequently connected with nongonococcal urethritis, epididymitis, prostatitis as well as female pelvic inflammatory disease. Mycoplasmas as etiological factors of genital organ infections have been kept in background of other pathogens for a long time. Recently, the connection between mycoplasmatic infections and marital infertility has been noticed more often. Nowadays this problem is frequently described in Polish as well as foreign scientific literature. The article is an attempt to introduce the problem of mycoplasmatic infections of urogenital male and female system. Simultaneously, it tries to answer the question whether and how they can be an essential cause of marital infertility.