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AKIHITO ISHIZAKA, MD; MASAE TOMITA, MD; SABURO SARASHINA, MD; FUMIKO TSUCHIDA, MD; TOSHIAKI ISHII, MD

Am J Dis Child. 1982;136(2):168-169.

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia is usually a self-limited respiratory tract infection. It is well known that a transient elevation of the levels of anti-I, which reacts with the I antigen of the I-i system of the human RBC, occurs in the course of M pneumoniae infections, but there has been no report, to our knowledge, that anti-M specific for the M antigen of the M-N system of the human RBC has developed during its course.

We describe a 6-year-old girl who needed blood transfusions for hemorrhagic shock caused by postinfectious thrombocytopenia and was found to have high titers of anti-M at the time of admission to hospital.

Report of a Case.—A 6-year-old girl was admitted to our hospital because of fever, malaise, and productive cough of ten days' duration. There was no history of transfusions. On admission, a roentgenogram of the chest disclosed an infiltrate in the left lower lobe. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Kushiro Red Cross Hospital Kushiro, Japan

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