title: Mycoplasma hominis necrotizing pleuropneumonia in a previously healthy adolescent.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Mycoplasma hominis is a fastidious micro-organism causing systemic infections in the neonate and genital infections in the adult. It can also be the cause of serious extra-genital infections, mainly in immunosuppressed or predisposed subjects.
  
  
  METHODS
  We describe a case of severe pneumonia and pericarditis due to Mycoplasma hominis in a previously healthy adolescent who did not respond to initial therapy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Mycoplasma hominis could be an underestimated cause of severe pneumonia in immunocompetent patients and should be particularly suspected in those not responding to standard therapy.
authors.affiliation: Infectious Diseases Service, Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland. Andres.Pascual@chuv.ch
authors.forename: Andres
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pascual
authors.forename: Marie-Helene
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Perez
authors.forename: Katia
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jaton
authors.forename: Gaudenz
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hafen
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Di Bernardo
authors.forename: Jacques
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cotting
authors.forename: Gilbert
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Greub
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Vaudaux
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009175:Mycoplasma Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D019535:Mycoplasma hominis; D010493:Pericarditis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology*; D011001:Pleuropneumonia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology*