Mycoplasma pneumoniae-Induced Rash and Mucositis in a Previously Healthy Man: A Case Report and Brief Review of the Literature

Jocelyn S Gandelman; Elizabeth Y Kim; Anne M Grzegorczyk; Kreshnik Zejnullahu; Randall S Edson

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofaa437

Mycoplasma pneumoniae-Induced Rash and Mucositis in a Previously Healthy Man: A Case Report and Brief Review of the Literature

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020 Sep 14;7(10):ofaa437. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa437. eCollection 2020 Oct.

Authors

Jocelyn S Gandelman¹, Elizabeth Y Kim¹, Anne M Grzegorczyk^{1

2}, Kreshnik Zejnullahu^{1

2}, Randall S Edson^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA.
² Division of Hospital Medicine, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA.

Abstract

We describe a case of a 33-year-old-male with Mycoplasma pneumoniae-induced rash and mucositis and review the literature on this newly described syndrome.

Keywords: MIRM; Mycoplasma pneumoniae; Mycoplasma pneumoniae-induced rash and mucositis; SJS; Stevens-Johnson syndrome.

Publication types

Case Reports