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INFECTION WITH MIMA POLYMORPHA : FATAL MENINGITIS AND SEPTICÆMIA
Author(s) -
GOLDSTEIN GIDEON,
COWLING DAVID C.,
WALLCOWLING ALFRED J.
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
australasian annals of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0571-9283
DOI - 10.1111/imj.1965.14.2.167
Subject(s) - subclinical infection , meningitis , rash , gram staining , sepsis , medicine , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , virology , immunology , antibiotics , surgery
SUMMARY Mima polymorpha is an unusual organism, which may take a coccal or bacillary form and may show mixed positive and negative Gram‐staining. Infection with M. polymorpha in a girl, aged 15 years, with subclinical chronic hepatitis, was manifested by septicaemia, a florid purpuric rash and meningitis. The patient died after seven days from persisting shock and oliguria. The diagnosis was suggested by the finding of an organism resembling Mima in a smear from the cerebro‐spinal fluid, and was confirmed by growing M. polymorpha in cultures from the cerebro‐spinal fluid and blood.