(ū-rē″ă-plăs′mă)
A mycoplasma that is usually sexually transmitted.
It may cause inflammation of the reproductive or urinary tracts in males and females. It has been implicated in a wide variety of infections in babies with low birth weight.
Ureaplasma urealyticum is a sample definition found in
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