Clinical and laboratory awareness for an under recognized pathogen in newborn meningitis: Mycoplasma Hominis: a case report
Background. Mycoplasma hominis is a well-known bacterium colonizing the genito-urinary tract. It may cause pneumonia, bacteremia, abscesses, chronic lung disease, and rarely meningitis during the newborn period. Case. A preterm infant with a birth weight of 885 grams was born at 27 wee...
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Background. Mycoplasma hominis is a well-known bacterium colonizing the genito-urinary tract. It may cause pneumonia, bacteremia, abscesses, chronic lung disease, and rarely meningitis during the newborn period.
Case. A preterm infant with a birth weight of 885 grams was born at 27 weeks of gestation and had respiratory distress syndrome needing mechanical ventilation. Spontaneous intestinal perforation and grade four intraventricular hemorrhage was diagnosed on day three.
Conclusion. M. hominis was accepted as the causative agent of meningitis in this case report.
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| spelling | doaj-art-eb041b71fab14b65bc9f739b063a701c2025-08-20T03:16:22ZengHacettepe University Institute of Child HealthThe Turkish Journal of Pediatrics0041-43012791-64212020-04-0162210.24953/turkjped.2020.02.015Clinical and laboratory awareness for an under recognized pathogen in newborn meningitis: Mycoplasma Hominis: a case reportSinem Gülcan Kersin0Turgut Bozan1Hülya Özdemir2Hülya Selva Bilgen3Güner Söyletir4Aslı Memişoğlu5Eren Özek6Division of Neonatology, Departments of Pediatrics, Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey.Department of Medical Microbiology, Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey.Division of Neonatology, Departments of Pediatrics, Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey.Division of Neonatology, Departments of Pediatrics, Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey.Department of Medical Microbiology, Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey.Division of Neonatology, Departments of Pediatrics, Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey.Division of Neonatology, Departments of Pediatrics, Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey. Background. Mycoplasma hominis is a well-known bacterium colonizing the genito-urinary tract. It may cause pneumonia, bacteremia, abscesses, chronic lung disease, and rarely meningitis during the newborn period. Case. A preterm infant with a birth weight of 885 grams was born at 27 weeks of gestation and had respiratory distress syndrome needing mechanical ventilation. Spontaneous intestinal perforation and grade four intraventricular hemorrhage was diagnosed on day three. Conclusion. M. hominis was accepted as the causative agent of meningitis in this case report. https://turkjpediatr.org/article/view/443Mycoplasma hominismeningitisneonatenewbornpreterm |
| spellingShingle | Sinem Gülcan Kersin Turgut Bozan Hülya Özdemir Hülya Selva Bilgen Güner Söyletir Aslı Memişoğlu Eren Özek Clinical and laboratory awareness for an under recognized pathogen in newborn meningitis: Mycoplasma Hominis: a case report The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics Mycoplasma hominis meningitis neonate newborn preterm |
| title | Clinical and laboratory awareness for an under recognized pathogen in newborn meningitis: Mycoplasma Hominis: a case report |
| title_full | Clinical and laboratory awareness for an under recognized pathogen in newborn meningitis: Mycoplasma Hominis: a case report |
| title_fullStr | Clinical and laboratory awareness for an under recognized pathogen in newborn meningitis: Mycoplasma Hominis: a case report |
| title_full_unstemmed | Clinical and laboratory awareness for an under recognized pathogen in newborn meningitis: Mycoplasma Hominis: a case report |
| title_short | Clinical and laboratory awareness for an under recognized pathogen in newborn meningitis: Mycoplasma Hominis: a case report |
| title_sort | clinical and laboratory awareness for an under recognized pathogen in newborn meningitis mycoplasma hominis a case report |
| topic | Mycoplasma hominis meningitis neonate newborn preterm |
| url | https://turkjpediatr.org/article/view/443 |
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