IRANIAN JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS, vol.24, no.5, pp.647-651, 2014 (SCI-Expanded)
Background: Extrapulmonary complications of Mycoplasma pneumoniae (M. pneumoniae) infection include encephalitis, optic neuritis, acute psychosis, stroke, cranial nerve palsies, aseptic meningitis and also it may be implicated in immune mediated neurological diseases such as acute demyelinating ecncephalomyelitis, Guillian-Barre syndrome and transverse myelitis.