A Case of Childhood COVID-19 Infection with Pleural Effusion Complicated by Possible Secondary Mycoplasma Pneumoniae Infection

Hong-Rui Chen; Hao Zou; Mei Xue; Zhen-Bing Chen; Wan-Xin Chen

doi:10.1097/INF.0000000000002721

A Case of Childhood COVID-19 Infection with Pleural Effusion Complicated by Possible Secondary Mycoplasma Pneumoniae Infection

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2020 Jul;39(7):e135-e137. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000002721.

Authors

Hong-Rui Chen¹, Hao Zou², Mei Xue², Zhen-Bing Chen, Wan-Xin Chen²

Affiliations

¹ From the Departments of Hand Surgery.
² Hematology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.

Abstract

We report a case of childhood coronavirus disease 2019 infection with pleural effusion complicated by possible secondary Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection. Fever and pulmonary lesions on computed tomography were the early clinical manifestations, and the patient developed nonproductive cough later. The hydrothorax in this coronavirus disease 2019 case was exudative, showing predominantly mature lymphocytes.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus / isolation & purification
COVID-19
Child
Coronavirus Infections / microbiology*
Coronavirus Infections / virology
Fever / virology
Humans
Lung / diagnostic imaging
Male
Pandemics
Pleural Effusion / microbiology*
Pleural Effusion / pathology
Pleural Effusion / virology
Pneumonia, Mycoplasma / pathology
Pneumonia, Mycoplasma / virology*
Pneumonia, Viral / microbiology*
Pneumonia, Viral / virology
SARS-CoV-2