[Massive pneumonia with severe acute respiratory insufficiency after chicken pox in a female patient].
A female patient who developed massive bilateral pneumonia with severe respiratory insufficiency during recovery from varicella, is presented. Blood serologic analyses detected the cause of infection--Mycoplasma pneumoniae, while Streptococcus pneumoniae was isolated by bacteriological examination of the sputum. M. pneumoniae is a causative agent of acute upper and lower respiratory airway infections with a frequently mild clinical picture. This agent rarely provokes massive pneumonia with severe clinical appearance as described in the patient, who had immunodeficiency due to previous infection with Varicella zoster virus.
Instiute of Pulmonary Diseases and Tuberculosis, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Belgrade.
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Nagorni-Obradović
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Mitić-Milikić
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Sekulić
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Vukcević
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Grozdenović
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D002644:Chickenpox / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011019:Pneumonia, Mycoplasma / Q000150:complications*; D011018:Pneumonia, Pneumococcal / Q000150:complications*; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology*