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11089791

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-2-23
pubmed:abstractText
We describe the clinical course of 2 HIV-positive patients in whom Mycoplasma fermentans was disseminated and persistent. We identified individuals in whom M. fermentans had been detected in a peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) or bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) specimen. Of this group a number had archival specimens of interest: liver and/or bone marrow, taken to investigate a systemic illness, and a few had M. fermentans positive tissues. Two patients, NC and DP, had recurrent episodes of lower respiratory tract infection and fever and both had been investigated by bronchoscopy on 4 occasions. M. fermentans was detected in specimens taken 18 and 27 months apart for NC and DP respectively, and in between, and repeatedly in respiratory tract tissues of DP. Granuloma were identified in the liver of NC that was M. fermentans positive but no further evidence of opportunistic infection was found during his illness. Both patients had M. fermentans positive bone marrow specimens. Assessment of the patients' records suggested that in one patient M. fermentans may have contributed to the respiratory disease and in the other to the systemic disease.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0956-4624
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
11
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
751-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Disseminated Mycoplasma fermentans in AIDS patients: several case reports.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Genitourinary Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, St Mary's Hospital, London, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports