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Complications of Mycoplasma pneumoniae Infection

Ted L. Rothstein, MD; George E. Kenny, PhD

Arch Neurol. 1979;36(8):476-477.

Abstract
• Polymyositis, transverse myelitis, ascending polyneuritis, bilateral optic neuritis, and hearing loss developed in a patient with high complement-fixing antibody titers to Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Each of her three children had primary atypical pneumonia with isolation of the organism. The neurologic disturbance is thought to represent a postinfectious complication of M pneumoniae infection.

Author Affiliations
From the Neurology Department, Northwest Memorial Hospital, and the Department of Pathobiology, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Oct 10, 1978.

Read in part before the 11th World Congress of Neurology, Amsterdam, Sept 15, 1977.

Reprint requests to 1570 N 115th St, Seattle, WA 98133 (Dr Rothstein).

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