http://www.mycoplasmapneumonia.net Symptoms, Treatment and Prevention Tue, 15 Feb 2011 04:45:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.mycoplasmapneumonia.net/how-to-treat-infections-caused-by-mycoplasma-pneumoniae/ http://www.mycoplasmapneumonia.net/how-to-treat-infections-caused-by-mycoplasma-pneumoniae/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:38:20 +0000 admin http://www.mycoplasmapneumonia.net/?p=68 It is strange enough that in order to cure a mycoplasma infection caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae one should do it via his own immune response, particularly the complement system. It is known that B-lactam antibiotics are helpless and useless in this situation. It is connected with the fact that B-lactams, similar to penicillin, perform their actions only on the cell wall, which is absent in Mycoplasma pneumoniae. However, polyene antibiotics that help to combat cholesterols in the membrane of mycoplasma, can also prove effective in the fight against the plasma membrane of the host cells. Read more...

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