Two cases of mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in the Philippines

ABSTRACT

To avoid the cliche of the introduction of this paper, we can only say that this is the first time that the two cases of the Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections of the lungs of man have been reported in the Philippines. The high precision technology and histopathology applied to the isolation and identification of the Mycoplasma pneumoniae and to the clearer description of the histopathology have helped us arrive at the diagnosis of this kind of infection with the least doubt. Our microphotographs and x-ray picture can bear our descriptions. The future, however, holds promise of more sophisticated techniques for its laboratory and clinical diagnosis. And once, we have these skills, we will not miss these cases any more because the difficulties met with in its diagnosis would have been eased out. (Summary and conclusions)