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J Med Microbiol 54 (2005), 417-419; DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.45859-0
© 2005 Society for General Microbiology
ISSN 0022-2615

Nuclear bilateral Bell's palsy and ageusia associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae pulmonary infection

Salim Trad1, Jade Ghosn1, Didier Dormont2, Bruno Stankoff3, François Bricaire1 and Eric Caumes1

Département des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales1, Service de Neuroradiologie2 and Fédération de Neurologie3, CHU Pitié-Salpétrière, 47-83 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France

Correspondence Salim Trad tradsalim{at}aol.com

Received August 10, 2004
Accepted November 25, 2004

This case report describes a case of nuclear bilateral Bell's palsy and ageusia associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection. Magnetic resonance imaging evidenced T2-weighted hyper-intense protuberantial lesions. Such topography leading to a nuclear palsy contrasts with previously reported infectious diplegia involving only peripheral facial nerves, and has not yet been described in the spectrum of M. pneumoniae post-infectious neurological manifestations.

Abbreviations: BBP, bilateral Bell's palsy; CRP, C-reactive protein; CSF, cerebrospinal fluid; CT, computerized tomography; EBV, Epstein–Barr virus; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging.






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