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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 01 1997, 286-287, Vol 35, No. 1
Copyright © 1997 by the American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

A fatal case of Mycoplasma hominis meningoencephalitis in a full-term newborn

C Alonso-Vega, N Wauters, D Vermeylen, MF Muller and E Serruys
Department of Microbiology, Hopital Erasme, Cliniques Universitaires de Bruxelles, Belgium.

We report the case of a 20-day-old full-term baby, born to a mother who had had an uncomplicated pregnancy and delivery, who died 13 days after the onset of meningitis. Mycoplasma hominis was the sole agent repeatedly recovered from cerebrospinal fluid and from postmortem brain tissue.


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