Faculty Opinions recommendation of ADP-ribosylating and vacuolating cytotoxin of Mycoplasma pneumoniae represents unique virulence determinant among bacterial pathogens.

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Drusilla L Burns
Keyword(s):  
Mycoplasma Pneumoniae ◽  
Bacterial Pathogens ◽  
Vacuolating Cytotoxin ◽  
Virulence Determinant

scholarly journals Results of Detecting SARS-CoV-2 and Other Pathogens of Community-Acquired Pneumonia by PCR in the Tyumen Region

2020 ◽  
pp. 146-149
Author(s):  
I. V. Bakshtanovskaya ◽  
T. F. Stepanova ◽  
G. V. Sharukho ◽  
A. N. Letyushev ◽  
K. B. Stepanova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mycobacterium Tuberculosis ◽  
Respiratory Tract ◽  
Mycoplasma Pneumoniae ◽  
Causative Agent ◽  
Lower Respiratory Tract ◽  
Viral Infections ◽  
Respiratory Infections ◽  
Bacterial Pathogens ◽  
Community Acquired Pneumonia ◽  
Respiratory Viral Infections

The aim of this work was to identify the causative agent of community-acquired pneumonia and coinfection using PCR study of biomaterial from patients.Materials and methods. PCR testing of 268 samples from 258 patients was carried out to identify RNA/DNA of viral and bacterial pathogens of respiratory infections.Results and discussion. In 43.3 % of samples SARS-CoV-2 RNA was detected, in 4.5 % – RNA/DNA of acute respiratory viral infections pathogens, in one sample – DNA of Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Co-infection was detected only in patients of the anti-tuberculosis dispensary (SARS-CoV-2 and Mycobacterium tuberculosis). In the examined patients with pneumonia, SARS-CoV-2 RNA was significantly more often detected in biomaterial from the lower respiratory tract (52 %) than in respiratory smears (8.5 %). In the first week from the onset of the disease, 19.2 % of positive samples were found, in the second – 56.5 %. 

The Diagnosis of Viral Disease by Electron Microscopy

1982 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 270-273
Author(s):  
William B. McCombs ◽  
Cameron E. McCoy
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Hospital Stay ◽  
Viral Infections ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Bacterial Pathogens ◽  
Viral Disease ◽  
Viral Pathogens ◽  
Academic Interest ◽  
The Past

Recent years have brought a reversal in the attitude of the medical profession toward the diagnosis of viral infections. Identification of bacterial pathogens was formerly thought to be faster than identification of viral pathogens. Viral identification was dismissed as being of academic interest or for confirming the presence of an epidemic, because the patient would recover or die before this could be accomplished. In the past 10 years, the goal of virologists has been to present the clinician with a viral identification in a matter of hours. This fast diagnosis has the potential for shortening the patient's hospital stay and preventing the administering of toxic and/or expensive antibiotics of no benefit to the patient.

An inactivated mycoplasma pneumoniae vaccine

JAMA ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 194 (3) ◽  
pp. 248-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. E. Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Mycoplasma Pneumoniae
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