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The solvent evaporation method was employed to encapsulate Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae vaccine (MHV) using cellulose acetate phthalate (CAP) as an enteric coating material. Glucose was used as a diluent. The effect of some factors, such as encapsulating temperature, surfactant concentration, mechanical agitation and CAP concentration on the formation condition, particle size distribution, morphology, surface topography and antigen content of MHV microspheres, was investigated. The result indicates that the optimal operating conditions were: encapsulating temperatures, 20 degrees C; stirring speed, 400 rpm; span 80 concentration, 0.6; and 8 per cent of CAP concentration, 30 ml. The optimal condition can be used to prepare the desirable microspheres. The content uniformity of MHV microspheres was also indicated.
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PMID:Preparation of enteric-coated microspheres of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae vaccine with cellulose acetate phthalate: I. Formation condition and micromeritic properties. 194 38

We describe a 4-year-old boy with delirium including somnolence, irritability, agitation and visual hallucination, associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) encephalitis. The MP encephalitis was diagnosed from increased MP-antibody (> 1:1280). Electroencephalography during sleep revealed continuous 9 Hz fast wave activity over the bilateral frontocentral regions, which was thought to represent extreme spindles. These extreme spindles were in parallel with the degree of delirium. Transient extreme spindles have not previously been reported in MP or other encephalitis.
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PMID:Transient extreme spindles in a case of subacute Mycoplasma pneumoniae encephalitis. 982 11

Bailey, Jack S. (George Washington University, Washington, D. C.), Harold W. Clark, William R. Felts, Richard C. Fowler, and Thomas McP. Brown. Antigenic properties of pleuropneumonia-like organisms from tissue cell cultures and the human genital area. J. Bacteriol. 82:542-547. 1961.-Antigens were prepared from several tissue culture and human genital strains of pleuropneumonia-like organisms (PPLO) by a method utilizing continuous agitation of the incubating cultures. Antisera were produced in rabbits by intravenous injection of suspensions of these organisms standardized turbidimetrically. The antigenic properties of the selected strains were compared by agglutination techniques supplemented by a test based upon the inhibition of growth of PPLO by specific antisera.The majority of tissue culture strains of PPLO studied, including contaminants from several HeLa cell lines, appeared to be antigenically similar to the human type 1 strains. However, one strain (Sp-1) from a HeLa cell line was found to be related to the human type 2 PPLO.
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PMID:Antigenic properties of pleuropneumonia-like organisms from tissue cell cultures and the human genital area. 1386 15

Group A beta-hemolytic streptococcal infections have been reported to cause neuropsychiatric symptoms, such as chorea, tics, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, presumably through autoimmune damage to basal ganglia. Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections have also been reported to cause damage to the basal ganglia. Restless legs syndrome is a movement disorder with focal restlessness, an irresistible desire to move, and exacerbation by long periods of sitting or lying. We present three children with transient restless legs syndrome-like symptoms possibly associated with group A beta-hemolytic streptococcal infection or Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection. One of three patients had persistently elevated enzyme-linked immunosorbent optical density values against human caudate and putamen.
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PMID:Restless legs syndrome: association with streptococcal or mycoplasma infection. 1530 31

Swabs are often used to collect material for avian mycoplasma culture. Such swabs, when inoculated into broth medium, are usually discarded prior to incubation of the broth. In this study the effect on growth of low numbers of Mycoplasma gallisepticum and Mycoplasma synoviae was compared in broths with and without retention of the swab. Plain or charcoal cotton swabs on wooden or plastic sticks were more likely to give growth if retained in the medium for incubation, but rayon swabs on aluminium wire caused inhibition of growth. It was shown that despite thorough agitation of the swab in the broth, cotton and rayon swabs could retain a large percentage of the total numbers of colony-forming units.
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PMID:The influence of type of swab and laboratory method on the recovery of Mycoplasma gallisepticum and Mycoplasma synoviae in broth medium. 1864 26

Mycoplasma pneumoniae may cause acute encephalitis, resulting in severe neurologic complications despite antibiotic therapy. We report the case of a 12-year-old patient who presented with acute onset of orofacial tics, motor restlessness, compulsive behavior, and cerebellar symptoms. Cerebrospinal fluid examination demonstrated lymphocytic meningitis. Polymerase chain reaction for M. pneumoniae was strongly positive in the cerebrospinal fluid. Blood and cerebrospinal fluid were negative for M. pneumoniae antibodies (immunoglobulin M and immunoglobulin G). The child was administered intravenous gamma-globulin, which led to a dramatic improvement of her clinical condition and disappearance of the symptoms within 72 hours. This novel case points to the potential value of gamma-globulin in M. pneumoniae encephalitis confirmed with polymerase chain reaction and suggests that immediate administration of intravenous gamma-globulin in suspected mycoplasma encephalitis should be investigated in a larger patient cohort.
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PMID:Immediate relief of Mycoplasma pneumoniae encephalitis symptoms after intravenous immunoglobulin. 1981 42