Mycoplasma pneumoniae encephalitis is a bacterial infection that mimics a virus; that is, the bacterias lack a cell wall and receptor sites for common antibiotics. Mycoplasmas are transmitted via the respiratory route and are the smallest free-living parasites known to exist. This type of pneumonia occurs more often in the winter months and is often accompanied by bulbous myringitis (eardrum inflammation) and otitis media (ear infections). The infection is more commonly found in school-age children and adolescents. Neurologic complications are rare: 1-7% of pneumoniae cases (Johnson, 1998), but the condition has been associated with a variety of serious problems, including lethargy, altered consciousness, agitation, psychotic behavior, seizures, aphasia, paresthesis, cranial nerve palsies, and cerebellar ataxia (Thomas, Collins, Robb, & Robinson, 1993). It has also been found in patients diagnosed with meningitis and Guillain-Barre syndrome.