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Central nervous system complications of Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
Three cases of central nervous system complications of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections are reported. There were several atypical findings: the first patient presented with an acute disseminated encephalitis with normal cerebrospinal fluid and hypogammaglobulinaemia. The second patient presented with a left sixth nerve palsy followed six weeks later by choreoathetoid movements and an acute psyc...
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BACKGROUND Extrapulmonary complications of Mycoplasma pneumoniae (M. pneumoniae) infection include encephalitis, optic neuritis, acute psychosis, stroke, cranial nerve palsies, aseptic meningitis and also it may be implicated in immune mediated neurological diseases such as acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis, Guillain-Barre syndrome and transverse myelitis. CASE PRESENTATION We present fiv...
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The mechanism of the neurologic complications associated with primary atypical pneumonia is unknown. To examine the ability of Mycoplasma pneumoniae to enter the brain of experimental animals, the organism was inoculated into adult and suckling mice by various routes. After intranasal infection, M. pneumoniae was isolated from brains and lungs of both groups of mice. After intracerebral inocula...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Neurology Briefs
سال: 2004
ISSN: 2166-6482,1043-3155
DOI: 10.15844/pedneurbriefs-18-8-7