Association of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome With Antibody for Mycoplasma Pneumoniæ

Ludlam, G. B.; Bridges, J. B.; Benn, E. C.

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(64)91746-5

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“…Skin eruptions sometimes occur in patients affected with Mycoplasma pneumoniae respiratory infections [1]. The most usual eruption is a mild erythematous maculopapular (or urticarial) rash.…”

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Unusual Eruptions Associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae Respiratory Infections: Review of the Literature

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Background: Maculopapular or urticarial eruptions and erythema multiforme sometimes occur in patients affected with Mycoplasma pneumoniae respiratory infections. Further eruptions have also been reported. Objective: To review the literature addressing M. pneumoniae respiratory infection and rather unusual eruptions. Methods: Computer-based search in the US National Library of Medicine database as well as in the search engine Google. Results: We found a possible relationship between M. pneumoniae infection and Fuchs' syndrome (n = 37), varicella-like eruptions (n = 8), Henoch-Schönlein syndrome and further leukocytoclastic vasculitides (n = 21) and erythema nodosum (n = 11). A temporal relationship was also observed with 2 cases of Gianotti-Crosti syndrome. Finally, there exists reasonable evidence that pityriasis rosea Gibert and pityriasis lichenoides et varioliformis acuta Mucha-Habermann are not associated with Mycoplasma infections. Conclusion: This review implies that M. pneumoniae may cause, in addition to erythematous maculopapular (or urticarial) eruptions and erythema multiforme, Fuchs' syndrome and varicella-like eruptions. Furthermore, there is an intriguing link with leukocytoclastic vasculitides or erythema nodosum that deserves further investigation.

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Unusual Eruptions Associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae Respiratory Infections: Review of the Literature

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“…In Reiter's syndrome also there is evidence for mycoplasma and antibodies to prostatic tissue (Bartholomew and Himes, 1964 ;Grimble, 1964;Grimble and Lessof, 1965). Furthermore, Ludlam et al (1964) reported in Stevens-Johnson syndrome the presence of cold agglutinins and complement-fixing antibodies to Mycoplasma pneumoniae.…”

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Behcet's syndrome and autoimmunity.

Lehner¹

1967

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“…Erythema multiforme is a clinically distinct syndrome of multiple aetiology affecting the skin and mucous membranes, and rarely the kidneys (Comaish and Kerr, 1961), producing lesions with some histological similarities to acute nephritis, although the normal blood-pressure, transient arthralgia, and occult blood in the stools may suggest anaphylactoid purpura syndrome. Drugs, sera, streptococci, viruses, mycoplasma pneumoniae (Ludlam et al, 1964), and chemical substances (Yaffee and Stargardter, 1963) have been blamed-as they have in all the necrotizing "allergic" angiitides (Winkelmann and Ditto, 1964). It is possible to link nephritis and erythema multiforme in Case 1, imputing as an antigen the foreign material from the insect bites or the fish.…”

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