Varicella-Like Rash Associated With Mycoplasma Infection

Abstract

A child with documented Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection had pulmonary symptoms and features of the Stevens-Johnson

Unusual Eruptions Associated with <b><i>Mycoplasma pneumoniae</i></b> Respiratory Infections: Review of the Literature

“…Eight cases of Mycoplasma infection developed vesicular lesions surrounded by an erythematous halo resembling varicella [36,37,38,39,40,41]. In these patients, the Tzanck preparation or the virus culture had been used to exclude varicella.…”

“…Using the described strategy, 94 reports were retained for the final analysis [4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97]: 1 in German [23], 1 in Italian […”

Mycoplasma Pneumoniae Infections and Stevens-Johnson Syndrome

“…For this paper, we carefully studied the patients with SJS in association with MP infection, comparing their characteristics with similar cases reported in the literature. [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39] Only the cases with positive MCFT (complement fixation titers as described below) accompanied by positive or negative serum cold agglutinins titer result and/or positive or negative nasopharyngeal and skin cultures for the MP organism were included. Of the 34 patients with positive MCFT, four had a single high titer done.…”

The role of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in dermatological diseases

“…The involvement of mucous membranes may be observed [7,8]. Differential diagnosis includes varicella exanthem or scarlet fever [9,10]. In a study involving 81 patients with MP infection, Macfarlane described the appearance of skin lesions in 15 (18.5%) cases [11].…”