Tully J G, Rose D L, Baseman J B, Dallo S F, Lazzell A L, Davis C P
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, Maryland 21702, USA.
J Clin Microbiol. 1995 Jul;33(7):1851-5. doi: 10.1128/jcm.33.7.1851-1855.1995.
A mycoplasma cultured from synovial fluid specimens from a patient with pneumonia and subsequent polyarthritis was identified initially as Mycoplasma pneumoniae. In retrospective studies, the culture was shown also to contain Mycoplasma genitalium. In this paper, the laboratory techniques employed in the identification and separation of the two species are presented, and evidence to implicate postinfectious autoimmunity is provided. An increasing number of reports of M. genitalium in human tissue sites and difficulties in isolation and identification of the organism in the clinical laboratory suggest the need for more extensive application of rapid and specific detection systems for both M. genitalium and M. pneumoniae in the clinical laboratory.
从一名肺炎及随后发生多关节炎患者的滑液标本中培养出的支原体最初被鉴定为肺炎支原体。在回顾性研究中，该培养物还被证明含有生殖支原体。本文介绍了用于鉴定和分离这两种支原体的实验室技术，并提供了提示感染后自身免疫的证据。越来越多关于生殖支原体在人体组织部位的报道以及临床实验室中该病原体分离和鉴定的困难表明，临床实验室需要更广泛地应用针对生殖支原体和肺炎支原体的快速、特异性检测系统。
