Chlamydia pneumoniae and Mycoplasma pneumoniae in young children from China with community-acquired pneumonia

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 7-14

  Liu, Gang ^a,b   Talkington, Deborah F ^a   Fields, Barry S ^a   Levine, Orin S ^a   Yang, Yonghong ^b   Tondella, Maria Lucia C ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Chlamydia pneumoniae; Community acquired pneumonia; Mycoplasma pneumoniae; PCR; Pneumonia; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHINA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATITIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIARRHEA; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NASOPHARYNX; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROAT CULTURE;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; CHLAMYDOPHILA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 18844427080     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2005.01.005     Document Type: Article

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