Cross-reactions with M. genitalium are well recognized. The organism eventually known as M. pneumoniae was first isolated from sputum in tissue culture from a patient with primary atypical pneumonia in 1944 (Eaton et al., 1944). (, Reznikov M Blackmore TK Finlay-Jones JJ Gordon DL (, Rhee SG Kang SW Jeong W Chang TS Yang KS Woo HA (, Roifman CM Rao CP Lederman HM Lavi S Quinn P Gelfand EW (, Saito R Misawa Y Moriya K Koike K Ubukata K Okamura N (, Seggev JS Lis I Siman-Tov R Gutman R Abu-Samara H Schey G Naot Y (, Shuvy M Rav-Acha M Izhar U Ron M Nir-Paz R (, Stralin K Backman A Holmberg H Fredlund H Olcen P (, Stralin K Tornqvist E Kaltoft MS Olcen P Holmberg H (, Susuki K Odaka M Mori M Hirata K Yuki N (, Szymanski M Petric M Saunders FE Tellier R (, Talkington DF Shott S Fallon MT Schwartz SB Thacker WL (, Teig N Anders A Schmidt C Rieger C Gatermann S (, Templeton KE Scheltinga SA Graffelman AW et al. A number of well-described outbreaks of M. pneumoniae respiratory infections in the community and in closed or semi-closed settings such as military bases, hospitals, religious communities, schools, and institutions for the mentally or developmentally disabled have been reported. Because the organism is very rarely isolated from clinical specimens, and performance of in vitro susceptibility tests is an even less common procedure, whether naturally occurring resistance to antimicrobial agents occurs to any significant extent is virtually unknown in most countries. Type II pneumocyte hyperplasia and diffuse alveolar damage have also been reported. Plasmapheresis and intravenous immunoglobulin therapy might also be considered if steroid therapy is ineffective in these settings. tend to occur in the late summer and early fall. (, Ursi D Ieven M Noordhoek GT Ritzler M Zandleven H Altwegg M (, Waites KB Simecka JW Talkington DF Atkinson TP (, Welti M Jaton K Altwegg M Sahli R Wenger A Bille J (, Wu Q Martin RJ Rino JG Breed R Torres RM Chu HW (, Wu Q Martin RJ Lafasto S Efaw BJ Rino JG Harbeck RJ Chu HW (, Yamamoto K Takayanagi M Yoshihara Y Murata Y Kato S Otake M Nakagawa H (, Yang J Hooper WC Phillips DJ Talkington DF (, Yang J Craig Hooper W Phillips DJ Talkington DF (, Yano T Ichikawa Y Komatu S Arai S Oizumi K (, Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. 2 . Additionally, direct roles in motility have been proposed for the major adhesin molecules, P1 (Seto et al., 2005) and P30 (Hasselbring et al., 2005). Its activity at low ATP concentrations (Merzbacher et al., 2004), unlike its counterpart in Bacillus subtilis, suggests strongly that M. pneumoniae, and probably other mycoplasmas, use HprK in a manner distinct from that of other organisms. (, Lieberman D Lieberman D Printz S et al. Mycoplasma pneumoniae hemadsorption and lysis of guinea pig erythrocytes that are low in endogenous catalase, are also mediated by peroxide (Tryon & Baseman, 1992). The organisms can be cultured from rodent lung over one year after initial infection permitting long-term studies on effects of infection on lung anatomy and physiology and the examination of the effects of infection in combination with allergic sensitization (Hardy et al., 2002). Pneumonia due to M. pneumoniae may uncommonly be complicated by empyema (Shuvy et al., 2006). The close association betweenM. pneumoniaeand the host cells prevents the hosts mucociliary clearance mechanisms from removing the bacterium. DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2017.8324 Corpus ID: 3570574; Insights into the pathogenesis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae @article{He2017InsightsIT, title={Insights into the pathogenesis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae}, author={Jun He and Mihua Liu and Zhufeng Ye and Tianping Tan and Xinghui Liu and Xiaoxing You and Yanhua Zeng and Yimou Wu}, journal={Molecular Medicine Reports}, year={2017}, volume={17}, pages={4155 . Host cells may lose their cilia, appear vacuolated, and reduce their oxygen consumption, glucose utilization, amino acid uptake, and macromolecular synthesis, ultimately resulting in exfoliation. Clinical samples suitable for M. pneumoniae PCR include nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal secretions, sputa, bronchoalveolar lavage, and lung tissue obtained by biopsy. Although this picture has been presented as typical, in actuality, family studies have revealed that many individuals never progress to the severe lower respiratory phase of the infection and up to 20% may be asymptomatic (Clyde, 1983). Due to its lack of a cell wall,M. pneumoniae is extremely susceptible to desiccation. MP are inhaled by the host and attach to cells in the respiratory tract. Most Mycoplasma infections never have a microbiological diagnosis because rapid, sensitive, specific, and reasonably priced methods for its direct detection are not readily available in physician offices or hospital laboratories. M. pneumoniaeis primarily an extracellular pathogen that has evolved a specialized attachment organelle for close association with host cells. Abstract. The clinical associations, diagnosis, and treatment of infections caused by M. hominis and Ureaplasma species will be reviewed here. Subsequent to cytadherence, M. pneumoniae is believed to cause disease in part through generation of peroxide. The two subtypes of M. pneumoniae most frequently isolated from clinical specimens differ to some extent in the amino acid and nucleotide sequences of P1 and its coding gene (Su et al., 1990), though numerous further variants have been identified in recent years (Kenri et al., 1999; Dorigo-Zetsma et al., 2000, 2001; Dumke et al., 2004; Pereyre et al., 2007). Pleura may contain patches of fibrinous exudates. The arrows indicate the attachment organelles. 1). The present review aimed to summarize several direct damage mechanisms, including adhesion damage, destruction of membrane fusion, nutrition depletion, invasive damage, toxic damage, inflammatory damage and immune damage. Pathogenesis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae: An update Genus Mycoplasma, belonging to the class Mollicutes, encompasses unique lifeforms comprising of a small genome of 8,00,000 base pairs and the inability to produce a cell wall under any circumstances. Complement fixation (CF) was the first method developed for serological testing for M. pneumoniae. The bacteria produce a P1 adhesin protein that allows attachment to a receptor on the respiratory tract epithelial cells. Evidence linking these cases with autoantibodies is weaker than the association with GBS but some data exist (Nishimura et al., 1996; Komatsu et al., 1998). Additional reports from Japan (Suzuki et al., 2006; Morozumi et al., 2008) found macrolide resistance in 1033% of M. pneumoniae strains obtained between 2001 and 2006, all of which had mutations in domain V of 23S rRNA gene. This review includes discussion of some of the newer aspects of our knowledge on this pathogen, characteristics of clinical infections, how it causes disease, the recent emergence of macrolide resistance, and the status of laboratory diagnostic methods. Advantages of real-time PCR over traditional PCR include more rapid turnaround time and less handling of PCR products using electrophoretic analysis (Saito et al., 2005). In 2005, a second report (Morozumi et al., 2005) identified 12 of 183 (6.6%) M. pneumoniae isolates from Japanese children with respiratory tract infections collected between 2002 and 2004 that were resistant to erythromycin with MICs of 32 to >64 g mL1. The evidence is particularly strong in the case of asthma, implicating M. pneumoniae both in the pathogenesis as well as in exacerbations of acute attacks (Sutherland et al., 2004). As a result, our understanding of M. pneumoniae's cell biology, mechanisms of cytadherence, disease production, evasion of host defenses, disease transmission, contribution to chronic lung diseases, emergence of antimicrobial resistance, and efficacy of new antimicrobial treatments have improved. A Finnish study (Korppi et al., 2004) reported that M. pneumoniae was detected in 30% of pediatric CAP, and in over 50% among children aged 5 years or older, making it the single most common pathogen detected. Marston (Marston et al., 1997) reported that M. pneumoniae was definitely responsible for 5.4% and possibly responsible for 32.5% of 2776 cases of CAP in hospitalized adults in Ohio. Approximately 5% of cases showed evidence of acute M. pneumoniae infection, most of whom were children. One recent study (Ozaki et al., 2007) found that a single assay using the IgM ImmunoCard (Meridian Bioscience) had a sensitivity of only 31.8% for detection of acute M. pneumoniae infection in seropositive children with pneumonia, but this increased to 88.6% when paired sera were analyzed. As M. pneumoniae lacks homologs of proteins associated with the pertussis toxin S1 subunit that confer its ability to be translocated from the pathogen to the host cell cytoplasm, it is unclear how this protein reaches the host cell. Although M. pneumoniae exclusively parasitizes humans, animal models of chronic respiratory infection in mice have been developed and are providing insight into the role of this organism in asthma pathogenesis (Wubbel et al., 1998). If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. However, the ultimate targets of this pathway, which in other organisms include a transcription factor absent in M. pneumoniae, remain unclear. The observation that atypical pneumonias were often associated with cold agglutinins was made as early as 1918 (Clough & Richter, 1918), and these autoantibodies were later characterized as recognizing the I antigen of human red cells, a carbohydrate antigen of surface glycolipids and proteins (Feizi & Taylor-Robinson, 1967; Yu et al., 2001). This characteristic makes them naturally resistant to antibiotics that target cell wall synthesis (like the beta-lactam antibiotics ). Of particular interest was the behaviour of Mycoplasma mycoides ssp. A study performed in the United States during the 1990s detected M. pneumoniae in 23% of CAP in children 34 years of age (Block et al., 1995). Owing to these significant limitations most clinical laboratories have replaced CF by alternative techniques with greater sensitivity and specificity, many of which have been developed and sold as commercial kits. It appears that Mtc has intermediate pathogenicity. Cellular & molecular basis of pathogenesis. Its main disadvantage is the need for both acute and convalescent paired sera collected 23 weeks apart that are tested simultaneously for IgM and IgG to confirm seroconversion. The organism has rarely been cultured from spinal fluid in patients with encephalitis, but detection of M. pneumoniae by PCR brings up the possibility that some cases may be due to active infection, not an autoimmune phenomenon. Specific microbiological, molecular, and serological assays must be used in order to confirm a suspected clinical diagnosis, but each of these approaches has its own inherent limitations. Mycoplasma pneumoniae has a gliding movement and specific tip organelles that help in burrowing between cilia in respiratory epithelium, leading to the sloughing of the respiratory epithelial cells. However, (Csng et al., 2004) measured IgG, IgM, and IgA antibodies against M. pneumoniae in healthy blood donors and in patients with various infections caused by microorganisms other than M. pneumoniae using various commercial EIA assays. The pathogenesis of encephalitis associated with the respiratory pathogen Mycoplasma pneumoniae is not well understood. Attachment organelles are indicated by black arrows. Saving Lives, Protecting People, Incidence of community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization. A complex at the base of the structure is also present, which might also be in contact with the cell membrane. In addition, some studies and case reports document the initial onset of asthma following M. pneumoniae infection (Petrovsky, 1990; Yano et al., 1994; Wilsher & Kolbe, 1995; Biscardi et al., 2004). [1] Peptidoglycan ( murein) is absent. Mycoplasma strains being considered as pathogenic or non-pathogenic for cattle were tested on their capacity to activate bovine alveolar macrophages in vitro. Macrolides are the treatments of choice, but tetracyclines and fluoroquinolones are also effective (Waites & Talkington, 2004). The major adhesin is a 170-kilodalton (kDa) protein, named P1. In experimentally infected cats, Mhf is apparently more pathogenic than Mhm. It is an atypical respiratory bacteria causing community acquired pneumonia (CAP) in children and adults of all ages. 2008 Federation of European Microbiological Societies. A French study (Layani-Milon et al., 1999) documented its occurrence in children <4 years of age without significant differences in infection rates for other children or adults. Nonetheless, it appears that metabolism of glycerol, a molecule that is presumably readily available to M. pneumoniae as a component of the phospholipids of the membrane of the host cell to which they are so closely apposed, is linked tightly to peroxide production and virulence. When considering the potential pathophysiology of M. pneumoniae-induced human diseases, a confounding factor lies in the possibility that either or both active infection and infection-induced autoimmune mechanisms may play a role in the ensuing inflammatory process. The long incubation period, relatively low transmission rate, and persistence of the organisms in the respiratory tract for variable periods following infections may explain in the prolonged duration of epidemics of M. pneumoniae infections. Mycoplasma pneumoniae bacteria commonly cause mild infections of the respiratory system (the parts of the body involved in breathing). Lack of a rigid cell wall makes these organisms pleomorphic and unable to be classified in the manner of conventional eubacteria. This possibility is supported by recent in vitro studies suggesting that the organism can take up residence and even replicate within cultured cells for prolonged periods, but this has not been proven to occur during natural infections (Dallo & Baseman, 2000; Meseguer et al., 2003; Yavlovich et al., 2004). Host cell lactoferrin acquisition by M. pneumoniae is yet another possible means by which local injury may occur through generation of highly reactive hydroxyl radicals resulting from the introduction of iron complexes in a microenvironment rendered locally acidic by cellular metabolism that also includes hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and superoxide anion (Tryon & Baseman, 1987). Genus Mycoplasma, belonging to the class Mollicutes, encompasses unique lifeforms comprising of a small genome of 8,00,000 base pairs and the inability to produce a cell wall under any. This is especially important in adults over 40 years of age who may not mount an IgM response, presumably because of reinfection. In contrast, a Th17-dominant inflammatory response appears to be important in clearance of the organism. Serological studies performed in Denmark showed a pattern of M. pneumoniae infections over a 50-year period from 1946 through 1995 with endemic disease transmission punctuated with cyclic epidemics every 35 years (Lind et al., 1997). WhileM. pneumoniae primarily lives on the surface of the respiratory epithelial cells, it can invade tissues and replicate intracellularly. However, qualitative, rapid point-of care serologic assays that detect both IgM and IgG or IgM alone in an easy-to-read format without the need for any instrumentation have been developed (Waites & Talkington, 2004). Many persons with mycoplasmal respiratory disease do not produce significant amounts of sputum, especially children. doi: 10.1128/CMR.17.4.697-728.2004. The molecular mechanism underlying gliding motility in M. pneumoniae is unclear. Patients with Campylobacter jejuni-associated GBS were uniformly negative for anti-GalC antibodies. Immunosuppressed persons with M. pneumoniae infection may lack pulmonary infiltrates, further attesting to the importance of the host immune response in lesion development (Waites & Talkington, 2004). Talkington et al. Mycoplasma hominis may also be found in this population, but at lower frequencies, quite often in association with ureaplasmas. Once the mycoplasma gets into the cell, it . Despite in vitro susceptibility to logical treatment alternatives, some infections can be expected to fail to respond clinically, even when treatment is administered for prolonged periods, accompanied by failure to eradicate the organisms or their rapid return when antimicrobials are discontinued. However, the consideration of a single 1: 64 CF titer as an indication of recent M. pneumoniae infection is still considered useful by some microbiologists. In one report, patients with macrolide-resistant M. pneumoniae who received macrolide treatment experienced more febrile days than patients with macrolide-susceptible isolates, but there were no apparent treatment failures or serious illnesses reported (Suzuki et al., 2006). Results of a population-based active surveillance study in Ohio. Search for other works by this author on: Department of Microbiology, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA, Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA, Molecular approaches to diagnosis of pulmonary diseases due to, Role of superoxide anion in host cell injury induced by, Surface localized glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase of, Cross-reactive anti-galactocerebroside antibodies and, Mycoplasmas: a distinct cytoskeleton for wall-less bacteria, Evaluation of 12 commercial tests and the complement fixation test for, Antibodies to brain and other tissues in cases of, Three cases of central nervous system complications associated with. Thus, the protein was dubbed community-acquired respiratory distress syndrome toxin (CARDS TX). Pericarditis has been frequently associated with M. pneumoniae infection and may be underdiagnosed (Kenney et al., 1993; Szymanski et al., 2002; Levy et al., 2003). The typical respiratory infection caused by M. pneumoniae is a slowly developing syndrome presenting with pharyngitis, sinus congestion, occasionally otitis media, and eventually prolonged lower respiratory involvement up to and including primary atypical pneumonia with fever and bibasilar pulmonary infiltrates. mycoides small colony type (M.m.m. However, others found no difference in detection of M. pneumoniae using PCR in adults (Gnarpe et al., 1997) or children (Reznikov et al., 1995) in these anatomic sites. These include: M. penetrans M. pneumoniae M. urealytium M. hominis M. genitalium M. pirum M. fermentation As parasites, species like M. pneumoniae have to attach to the cell of the host first. C57BL/6 J mice were gavaged with L. casei CNRZ1874 or PBS for 7 consecutive days, and then infected with M. pneumoniae on day 8. In some cases, IgA is the only antibody class that is positive (Lieberman et al., 2002). The small genome typical of mycoplasmal species is believed to be the result of a gradual reduction in genome size from a common gram-positive ancestor by the process of degenerative evolution (Maniloff, 1992). Finally, acute arthritis has occasionally be identified as being due to dissemination of the organism in patients with apparently normal immunity (Davis et al., 1988; Dionisio et al., 2001). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cannot attest to the accuracy of a non-federal website. Climate, seasonality, and geography are not thought to be of major significance, although most outbreaks in the United States. Over the past several years, sophisticated molecular-based techniques such as PCR, along with older technology such as serology, and culture, augmented by knowledge obtained from the complete genome sequence, have been applied in epidemiologic investigations, animal models of disease, evaluation of diagnostic tests, and clinical trials of antimicrobial agents. Another recent report has confirmed the presence of macrolide-resistant M. pneumoniae in France with the Domain V 23S rRNA gene mutations (Pereyre et al., 2007). Mycoplasma pneumoniae has both lipid and protein antigens which elicit antibody responses that can be detected after about 1 week of illness, peaking at 36 weeks, followed by a gradual decline, allowing several different types of serological assays, based on different antigens and technologies. Many of these neuroinvasive cases lack the typical pulmonary symptoms and antibody, unlike patients with M. pneumoniae-associated GBS (Christie et al., 2007a, b). You can review and change the way we collect information below. Positive PCR results in culture-negative persons without evidence of respiratory disease suggests inadequate assay specificity, persistence of the organism after infection, or asymptomatic carriage, perhaps in an intracellular compartment that does not yield culturable organisms. Pneumonia caused byM. pneumoniaeis a type of atypical bacterial pneumonia. Mutations in the quinolone resistance determining regions resulted in minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) for ciprofloxacin up to 32 g mL1 (Gruson et al., 2005). The prolonged refractory cough is considered to be due . Perhaps the most important question arising from the emergence of macrolide-resistant M. pneumoniae in Japan is whether there is an associated clinical implication. The mycoplasma acts by entering into the individual cells of the body, depending upon your genetic predisposition. As the genome of M. pneumoniae encodes the same enzyme, and metabolism of glycerol by M. pneumoniae is known to result in peroxide production (Low et al., 1971), it is reasonable to propose that the same metabolic pathway contributes to M. pneumoniae disease. Serology is a useful epidemiologic tool in circumstances where the likelihood of mycoplasmal disease is high, but it is less suited for assessment of individual patients. is supported by NHLBI P01 HL073907-04. Mycoplasma bovis (M. bovis) is an etiological agent of bronchopneumonia, mastitis, arthritis, otitis, keratoconjunctivitis, meningitis, endocarditis and other disorders in cattle.It is known to spread worldwide, including countries for a long time considered free of the infection. Its targets in the host cytoplasm remain unidentified. Although direct interactions between these molecules and their putative targets on host cells have not been reported, M. pneumoniae cells interact specifically with nonproteinaceous molecules that are widely distributed on animal cells in general. Superoxide anion produced by M. pneumoniae acts to inhibit catalase in host cells, thereby reducing the enzymatic breakdown of peroxides produced endogenously and by the Mycoplasma rendering the host cell more susceptible to oxidative damage (Almagor et al., 1984). Mycoplasma haemofelis (Mhf), "Candidatus Mycoplasma haemominutum" (Mhm), and " Candidatus M. turicensis" (Mtc) all can be found in cats. They found an A-to-G transition at position 2063 in domain V of the 23S rRNA gene in nine strains and an A-to-G transition at position 2064 in two strains. Purpose of Review. Fever, sweating and shaking chills. Accordingly, the M. pneumoniae cell volume is <5% of that of a typical bacillus. Pathogenesis Mycoplasmas are surface parasites of the human respiratory and urogenital tracts. Activation of this cell type likely proceeds through the activation of toll-like receptors 1 and 2 (TLR1 and TLR2) by Mycoplasma-derived lipopeptides (Shimizu et al., 2007). If antibiotics have been administered, PCR results may be negative even though serology is positive. Negative PCR results in culture or serologically proven infections increase the possibility of inhibitors or other technical problems with the assay and its gene target. Mycoplasma hominis and Ureaplasma species have been associated with a number of urogenital infections and complications of pregnancy.They also cause various infections at nongenital sites, especially in immunocompromised patients and neonates. Mycoplasmas are prokaryotes within the class Mollicutes and are the smallest free-living, self-replicating microorganisms.1,2 All members of the class lack a protective cell wall; thus they are damaged easily when outside of the host and are difficult to identify with most staining techniques. Proteins P41 and P24, both of which are located in this region (Kenri et al., 2004), have recently been found to be required for normal relations between the attachment organelle and the cell body. (, Niitu Y Hasegawa S Suetake T Kubota H Komatsu S Horikawa M (, Nishimura M Saida T Kuroki S Kawabata T Obayashi H Saida K Uchiyama T (, O'Sullivan MV Isbel NM Johnson DW Rencken K Byrne S Graham MM Playford EG (, Pereyre S Guyot C Renaudin H Charron A Bebear C Bebear CM (, Pereyre S Charron A Renaudin H Bebear C Bebear CM (, Pilo P Vilei EM Peterhans E Bonvin-Klotz L Stoffel MH Dobbelaere D Frey J (, Pitcher D Chalker VJ Sheppard C George RC Harrison TG (, Poggio TV Orlando N Galanternik L Grinstein S (, Raggam RB Leitner E Berg J Muhlbauer G Marth E Kessler HH (, Ramirez AS Rosas A Hernandez-Beriain JA et al. Alveoli are usually spared. Though the report from a multicenter study has not yet been finalized and accepted by the CLSI, preliminary results have been communicated that summarize test methodology for agar and broth dilution techniques and establish recommended quality control reference strains for each method (Waites et al., 2006a, b). 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