The thousand and one faces of Mycoplasma

Raquel Berzosa López^a, Miguel Ángel Carro Rodríguez^b, María de la Parte Cancho^c, Marina Mora Sitjà^c, Roi Piñeiro Pérez^b

^aUnidad de Infectología Pediátrica. Servicio de Pediatría. Hospital General de Villalba. Collado Villalba. Madrid. España.
^bServicio de Pediatría. Hospital General de Villalba. Collado Villalba. Madrid. España.
^cServicio de Pediatría. Hospital General de Villalba. Collado-Villalba. Madrid. España.

Correspondence: R Berzosa. E-mail: rberzosa@hotmail.com

Reference of this article: Berzosa López R, Carro Rodríguez MA, de la Parte Cancho M, Mora Sitjà M, Piñeiro Pérez R. The thousand and one faces of Mycoplasma. Rev Pediatr Aten Primaria. 2021;23:297-9.

Published in Internet: 16-09-2021 - Visits: 9505

Abstract

Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a pathogen involved in the etiology of respiratory processes, but also in other extrapulmonary entities, including “Mycoplasma induced-rash and mucositis”, first described in 2015. Two clinical cases of a 5-year-old girl and a 6-year-old boy admitted to our hospital with this entity are presented. As it is a recently described and infrequent diagnosis, its knowledge by pediatricians, ophthalmologists and dermatologists is necessary for proper management.

Keywords

● Conjunctival hyperaemia ● Exanthema ● Mucositis ● Mycoplasma pneumoniae

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