Mima Polymorpha Meningitis

Mima polymorpha Meningitis in the Young

“…Since then, increasing numbers of reports 2-5 in the English literature have confirmed this tribe's etiologic role in a wide variety of primary clinical infections. Reports [6][7][8][9] of Mima polymorpha meningitis have appeared sporadically since DeBord's10 first description, but recently sufficient cases have accumulated to outline a characteristic clinical picture. We report two instances of meningitis caused by M polymorpha, var.…”

Bacterium anitratum and Mima polymorpha infection in Uganda

“…Mima polymorpha has thus been incriminated in cases of meningitis (De Bord, 1948;Fred, Allen, Hessel, and Holtzman, 1958;Olafsson, Lee, and Abernethy, 1958;Torregrosa and Received for publication 25 November 1964. Ortiz, 1961, and at times has been mistaken for Neisseria meningitidis (Schuldberg, 1953;Waite and Kline, 1959), has caused subacute bacterial endocarditis (Pike, Schulze, and McCullough, 1951), septicaemia (Faust and Hood, 1949;Torregrosa and Ortiz, 1961), Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome (Townsend, Hersey, and Wilson, 1954), urethritis (Deacon, 1945;Ino, Neugebauer, and Lucas, 1959), infection of war wounds (Deacon, 1945), and has been found in cases of purulent conjunctivitis and vaginitis (De Bord, 1943), as well as in a number of normal vaginas. De Bord's (1939) claim of a causative relationship with a gonorrhoea-like urethritis appears to have been confirmed and Mima polymorpha has been incriminated in many cases of socalled penicillin-resistant gonorrhoea (Svihus, Lucero, Mikolajczyk, and Carter, 1961).…”

“…Neither is citrate utilized, indole or H2S produced, nor nitrates reduced to nitrites and the methyl red, and Voges-Proskauer tests are negative (De Bord, 1942;Ino et al, 1959;Pike et al, 1951;Waite and Kline, 1959), although citrate utilization has been reported (Deacon, 1945;Schuldberg, 1953). Deacon (1945), however, also included organisms which did reduce nitrates to nitrites.…”

“…They are, however, not infrequently sensitive to tetracyclines and resistant to penicillin (Brooks and Sanders, 1954;Daly et al, 1962;Glick, Moran, Coleman, and O'Brien, 1959;Ino and Neugebauer, 1956;Ino et al, 1959;Mannheim and Stenzel, 1962;Lund, 1954;Olafsson et al, 1958;Pike et al, 1951;Schaub and Hauber, 1948;Sorrell and White, 1953;Torregrosa and Ortiz, 1961;Waite and Kline, 1959).…”