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CAPT. HERBERT L. FRED, MC; CAPT. TERRY D. ALLEN, MC; CAPT. HERMAN L. HESSEL, MC; 1ST LIEUT. CHARLES F. HOLTZMAN, MSC

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1958;102(2):204-206.

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Although meningococcal meningitis is not usually difficult to diagnose, a similar clinical and pathological picture may sometimes be produced by organisms other than Neisseria meningitidis.⁴ This point was demonstrated to us recently by a patient with meningitis due to Mima polymorpha.

M. polymorpha is a species of the tribe Mimeae, which was named by De Bord,¹ in 1939, because this unusual group of Gramnegative bacilli closely mimicked neisseriae. Later, De Bord noted the presence of M. polymorpha in both normal and inflamed vaginae.^2,3 In 1945, Deacon ⁵ recovered this bacillus from war wounds, a chancroid lesion, brain tissue after head injury, and cases of resistant gonorrhea in the male. Thereafter, De Bord,⁶ and subsequently Townsend et al.⁷ described patients with M. polymorpha meningitis. A closely related organism was cultured from the meninges at autopsy in Schuldberg's case.⁴ Subacute bacterial endocarditis,⁸ septicemia,⁹ and urinary tract infections 10 have also been caused . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
U. S. A. F.

From the Medical and Laboratory Services, U. S. A. F. Hospital, Amarillo Air Force Base, Texas.

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Submitted for publication Jan. 8, 1958.

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