Community outbreak of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection: School-based cluster of neurologic disease associated with household transmission of respiratory illness

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 198, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1365-1374

  Walter, Nicholas D ^a,b,g,i   Grant, Gavin B ^a,b   Bandy, Utpala ^e   Alexander, Nicole E ^f   Winchell, Jonas M ^b   Jordan, Hannah T ^a,b,h   Sejvar, James J ^c,d   Hicks, Lauri A ^b,f   Gifford, David R ^e   Alexander, Nicole T ^b   Thurman, Kathleen A ^b   Schwartz, Stephanie B ^b   Dennehy, Penelope H ^f   Khetsuriani, Nino ^a   Fields, Barry S ^b   Dillon, Michael T ^a   Erdman, Dean D ^a   Whitney, Cynthia G ^b   Moore, Matthew R ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

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

^e RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^f BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^h NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ELEMENTARY STUDENT; ENCEPHALITIS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; EPIDEMIC; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NASOPHARYNX; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OROPHARYNX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENCEPHALITIS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCHOOLS; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 54249116723     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/592281     Document Type: Article

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