Venkatesan P, Patel V, Collingham K E, Ellis C J
Department of Infection and Tropical Medicine, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, U.K.
J Infect. 1996 Sep;33(2):115-7. doi: 10.1016/s0163-4453(96)93043-1.
The case of a 21-year-old male who presented with pneumonia associated with thrombocytopenia and bleeding and who died from intracranial haemorrhage is described. Very high titres of complement fixing and agglutinating anti-mycoplasma antibodies indicated recent Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection. Possible links between thrombocytopenia and M. pneumoniae infection are discussed.
