First Case of Skin and Soft Tissue Infection Caused by Mycoplasma hominis in a Pediatric Immunocompromised Patient

Ann Lab Med. 2017 Jul;37(4):346-348. doi: 10.3343/alm.2017.37.4.346.

Authors

Hanwool Cho¹, Kang Gyun Park¹, Seong Beom Han², Nack Gyun Chung², Yeon Joon Park³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
² Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
³ Department of Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea. [email protected].

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
DNA, Bacterial / genetics
DNA, Bacterial / metabolism
Dibekacin / analogs & derivatives
Dibekacin / therapeutic use
Female
Graft vs Host Disease / etiology
Humans
Immunocompromised Host
Mycoplasma Infections / diagnosis*
Mycoplasma Infections / drug therapy
Mycoplasma Infections / microbiology
Mycoplasma hominis / chemistry
Mycoplasma hominis / genetics
Mycoplasma hominis / isolation & purification*
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Soft Tissue Infections / diagnosis*
Soft Tissue Infections / drug therapy
Soft Tissue Infections / microbiology
Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
Tigecycline / therapeutic use
Transplantation, Homologous / adverse effects

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
DNA, Bacterial
Dibekacin
Tigecycline
arbekacin