Condoms prevent infection by Mycoplasma genitalium Andrew Brookes/getty
An emerging sexually transmitted infection that you鈥檝e probably never heard of 鈥渃ould become the next superbug鈥, according to . What exactly is Mycoplasma genitalium, and how worried should we be?
M. genitalium is small bacteria that was first identified in 1981, and at that time it was unclear if it was a STI. Its true nature was only definitively confirmed in 2015 by which found the infection was more common in those who had had more partners or unprotected sex.
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