Transverse myelitis associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection.
Open Access
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- case report
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 59 (1) , 80-82
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.59.1.80
Abstract
A case of acute transverse myelitis associated with respiratory infection by Mycoplasma pneumoniae is described. Circulating antibodies to myelin were detected suggesting that mycoplasma related neurological damage is mediated by producing an immunological myelopathy.Keywords
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