Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a common respiratory pathogen that can cause both upper and lower respiratory tract infections in children and adults, with a wide range of severity from mild to life-threatening. It is a leading cause of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in school-aged children. In add...
Although previously classified as Haemobartonella and Eperythrozoon spp., sequence analysis of the 16S rRNA genes of these organisms has shown that they are closely related to the pneumoniae group of mycoplasmas, which includes the human mycoplasmal pathogens Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Mycoplasma ...
Complement fixation titers for M.pneumoniae were negative on admission; subsequent titers measured on several occasions were 1/128. A thoracentesis revealed straw-colored fluid;gram stain and cultures of the pleural fluid for bacteria, viruses, fungi and acid-fast bacilli were negative. A ...
Mycoplasma species are the smallest free-living organisms. These organisms are unique among prokaryotes in that they lack a cell wall, a feature largely responsible for their biologic properties such as their lack of a reaction to Gram stain and their la
Acute respiratory tract infections (ARIs) are common and frequently-occurring diseases in childhood. Pneumonia is responsible for 260,000 deaths in children each year in China (1).Mycoplasma pneumoniae(MP) is one of the main pathogens associated with ARIs in children. Notably, ~40% of patients ...
Fibronectin is a key component of the host extracellular matrix and fibronectin-binding proteins have been described in many other bacterial pathogens including Mycoplasma pneumoniae (40), Mycoplasma gallisepticum (30), and Mycoplasma penetrans (41). In this study we report M. hyopneumoniae as a ...
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Etiology Mycoplasma pneumoniae , originally called the Eaton agent, was first isolated from a sputum culture in a patient with atypical pneumonia in 1944. Twenty years later, it was ultimately identified to be a Mycoplasma not a virus as once thought. Mycoplasmas are the smallest self-repli...
Gram's stain, routine bacterial and fungal cultures were negative. The acute serum cold agglutinin titer was 1:16384 and the M pneumoniae IgG (complement fixation) was 1:64.and IgM (particle agglutination) was 1: 20480. The sputum polymerase chain reaction for determination of M pneumoniae ...
Cao B, Ren LL, Zhao F, Gonzalez R, Song SF, Bai L, Yin YD, Zhang YY, Liu YM, Guo P, et al: Viral and mycoplasma pneumoniae community-acquired pneumonia and novel clinical outcome evaluation in ambulatory adult patients in China. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2010, 29(11):1443-...