[Mycoplasma meningoencephalitis and encephalomyelitis in children].

The authors report of some results of clinico-morphological studies in generalized mycoplasmic infections in 7 babies, who died from meningoencephalitis and encephalomyelitis. Morphological studies of the CNS demonstrated not only structural tissue changes, but permitted to detect the agent-mycoplasma. A clinical diagnosis of mycoplasmic lesions of the nervous system is of certain difficulty due to the polymorphism of neurological signs. The clinical picture of the nervous system affection consisted of disorders of cortical functions in combination with the pathology of the subcortical structures, disorders in the brain stem and the spinal cord. The initial symptom of the nervous system affection in 5 cases was a convulsive syndrome, in 2--bulbar disorders. The authors give some data testifying to a possibility of an intrauterine lesion of the CNS.