Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Background
- Typically affects patients <40yo
- Causes:
- Pneumonia
- Walking PNA, patchy and interstitial
- Relative bradycardia
- Bullous myringitis - painful, fluid filled vesicles on eardrum
- Presence of otalgia should prompt evaluation
- (Streptococcus pneumoniae is also associated w/ bullous myringitis)
- Guillain-Barre Syndrome
- Cold agglutinins w/ IgM
- Erythema Multiforme
- Encephalitis
- Pneumonia
Antibiotic Sensitivities[1]
Key
- S susceptible/sensitive (usually)
- I intermediate (variably susceptible/resistant)
- R resistant (or not effective clinically)
- S+ synergistic with cell wall antibiotics
- U sensitive for UTI only (non systemic infection)
- X1 no data
- X2 active in vitro, but not used clinically
- X3 active in vitro, but not clinically effective for Group A strep pharyngitis or infections due to E. faecalis
- X4 active in vitro, but not clinically effective for strep pneumonia
Table Overview
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See Also
References
- ↑ Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy 2014