The clinical aspects of pneumonic patients with positive mycoplasma antibody.

Background : Mycoplasma pneumonia (M.pneumonia) is a major cause of atypical pneumonia , and its incidence is predominantly at childhood and early adulthood.In contrast, the incidence of adult patients with M. pneumonia has been known to be low.Furthermore the clinical aspects of M. pneumonia are different from those of community acquired pneumonia.Thus, we evaluated the clinical aspects of M. pneumonia in the adult patients Method ' Mycoplasma antibody and cold agglutination tests were performed in patients with clinically suspected pneumonia who had abnormal infiltrations on chest P.A.The 12 patients with pneumonia, who fulfilled entry criteria of more than 1:64 of cold agglutination titer and 1:40 of mycoplasma antibody titer or four.foldincrease of mycoplasma antibody titer during one week , were analyzed in terms of clinical aspects Results: 1) T welve patients, male 3 and female 9, were included in this study.The peak incidence was teenager 2) M. pneumonia occured perennially, but predominantly between June to October in eight patients.3) The main symptoms were fever, coughing, sputum.4) The main patterns of chest P.A were bronchopneumoina in 8 cases, and involved lesion were nearly both lower lobe.Conclusion ' The clinical aspects with Mycoplasma pneumonia in adult patients were different from those of community acquired pneumonia.Key Words: Mycoplasma pneumonia , Mycoplasma antibody 서 론 차지하지는 않는다 1-3) 하지만 임상적으로는 mycoplasma 폐령이 의싱되지만， 확진인 균배양이 힘을기 때 문에 보고가 적 었을 것 이 다.Mycoplasma 폐 령 의 확진 의