Question

Is Mycoplasma Pneumonia and Mycoplasma Pneumoniae the same thing? Or is one of them the infection and the other one is the bacteria that causes the infection? Could you also explain some of the symptoms that you would see with someone suffering from Mycoplasma Pneumonia. Please explain.

Answer 1

These two are different one is disease(mycoplasma pneumonia ) and another is bacteria (mycoplasma pneumoniae)

Symptoms include being tired and having a sore throat, fever, and cough. Sometimes M. pneumoniae can cause pneumonia, a more serious lung infection, which may require care in a hospital.

When the bacteria infects lower respiratory tract the following symptoms are appreciated ;

difficulty in breathing , rapid, shallow breathing,
wheezing
chest pain that aggrievats when a person breathes or coughs or sneeze,
Techycardia
sweating and shivering
a loss of appetites
malaise, or general body weekness

Genralized body pain.