title: Psychosis and mycoplasma pneumoniae.
abstract: Mycoplasma pneumoniae has long been recognized as an important agent of respiratory infections in humans. Less well known is the variety of extrapulmonary conditions associated with M. pneumoniae (Cassel, 1981; Ponka, 1979; Levine, 1978). The most common of these are central nervous system (CNS) complications (Lind, 1979) including meningitis, encephalitis, cranial nerve palsies, ascending paralysis (Guillain-Barre-like), transverse myelitis, cerebellar ataxia, polyradiculitis and acute psychosis. This paper describes a woman who developed an acute psychosis in the setting of a M. pneumoniae respiratory infection.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009177:Mycoplasma pneumoniae / Q000302:isolation & purification; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D011019:Pneumonia, Mycoplasma / Q000150:complications*