A novel hemotropic mycoplasma (hemoplasma) in a patient with hemolytic anemia and pyrexia

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Steer, Jane A ^a   Tasker, Séverine ^b   Barker, Emily N ^b   Jensen, Jørgen ^c   Mitchell, Joanne ^d   Stocki, Teresa ^e   Chalker, Victoria J ^e   Hamon, Mike ^a  

^a DERRIFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^e PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AZATHIOPRINE; BACTERIAL DNA; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3D; DOXYCYCLINE; HAPTOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MOXIFLOXACIN; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PREDNISOLONE; SMOOTH MUSCLE ANTIBODY; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; CYTOPENIA; DETERIORATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DYSPNEA; EPERYTHROZOONOSIS; ERYTHROPHAGOCYTOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; GRANULOMA; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBINURIA; HEMOLYSIS; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HEMOSTASIS; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LAPAROTOMY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER HEMATOMA; LIVER HEMORRHAGE; MONOTHERAPY; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA HAEMOMURIS; MYCOPLASMA TURICENSIS; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NIGHT SWEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PETECHIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; SARCOIDOSIS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZA COMPOUNDS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DOXYCYCLINE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; NEUTROPENIA; PHYLOGENY; QUINOLINES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 80755172481     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cir666     Document Type: Article

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