Open AccessMycoplasma pneumoniae meningoencephalitis: a case report
Author(s) -
Mehmet Bektaş,
Fesih Aktar,
Mehmet Açıkgöz,
Ertan Sal,
Hüseyîn Çaksen
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of acute disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2589-5516
pISSN - 2221-6189
DOI - 10.1016/s2221-6189(13)60122-5
Subject(s) - mycoplasma pneumoniae , medicine , meningoencephalitis , pneumonia , encephalitis , sore throat , pediatrics , immunology , differential diagnosis , pathology , virus
Nervous system is the most affected area in mycoplasma pneumoniae infections with exception of respiratory system. It is an important agent of childhood acute encephalitis and respiratory system infections in school-age children and young adults. Routine clinical and laboratory findings to identify spesific diagnosis is limited. Twelve-year-old female patient was admitted with fever, fatigue, sore throat, slipping the right eye, withdrawal of the mouth from the right and right hemiclonic seizures. Test of anti-Mycoplasma pneumoniae (M. pneumoniae) IgM was positive and IgG antibodies were found to be 4-fold increase in the sera of follow-up. This article was presented with the aim of remembering M. pneumoniae to be an differential diagnosis in children with acute encephalitis