Mycoplasma salivarium isolated from brain abscesses

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1047-1049

  Orsted I ^a   Gertsen, J B ^a   Schonheyder H C ^a   Jensen, J S ^b   Nielsen, H ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

16S ribosomal DNA; Brain abscess; Mycoplasma salivarium

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; CLINDAMYCIN; METRONIDAZOLE; MOXIFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLIN V; ROXITHROMYCIN;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; COORDINATION DISORDER; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DYSPEPSIA; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; MASTOIDECTOMY; MENINGISM; MONOTHERAPY; MYCOPLASMA SALIVARIUM; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OTALGIA; PARACENTESIS; PERIODONTITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVOTELLA MELANINOGENICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; STREPTOCOCCUS ANGINOSUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA SALIVARIUM;

EID: 79959994406     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2011.03462.x     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Payan DG, Seigal N, Madoff S. Infection of a brain abscess of Mycoplasma hominis. J Clin Microbiol 1981; 14: 571-573.
2. Zheng X, Olson DA, Tully JG et al. Isolation of Mycoplasma hominis from a brain abscess. J Clin Microbiol 1997; 35: 992-994.
3. Kupila L, Rantakokko-Jalava K, Jalava J et al. Aetiological diagnosis of brain abscesses and spinal infections: application of broad range bacterial polymerase chain reaction analysis. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003; 74: 728-733.
4. Al Masalma M, Armougom F, Scheld WM et al. The expansion of the microbiological spectrum of brain abscesses with use of multiple 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing. Clin Infect Dis 2009; 48: 1169-1178.
5. Jensen JS, Bruun B, Gahrn Hansen B. Unexpected cross-reaction with Fusobacterium necrophorum in a PCR for detection of mycoplasmas. J Clin Microbiol 1999; 37: 828-829.
6. Jensen JS, Hansen HT, Lind K. Isolation of Mycoplasma genitalium strains from the male urethra. J Clin Microbiol 1996; 34: 286-291.
7. Engel LD, Kenny GE. Mycoplasma salivarium in human gingival sulci. J Periodontal Res 1970; 5: 163-171.
8. So AK, Furr PM, Taylor-Robinson D, Webster AD. Arthritis caused by Mycoplasma salivarium in hypogammaglobulinaemia. BMJ (Clin Res Ed) 1983; 286: 762-763.
9. Grisold AJ, Hoenigl M, Leitner E et al. Submasseteric abscess caused by Mycoplasma salivarium infection. J Clin Microbiol 2008; 46: 3860-3862.