Epidemiology and clinical features of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection in children

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 102, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1762-1768

  Defilippi, Annacarla ^a   Silvestri, Michela ^a   Tacchella, Angela ^a   Giacchino, Raffaella ^a   Melioli, Giovanni ^a   Di Marco, Eddi ^a   Cirillo, Carmela ^a   Di Pietro, Pasquale ^a   Rossi, Giovanni A ^a  

^a G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Children; Infection; Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOCYTE; MORBIDITY; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; TACHYPNEA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROAT CULTURE; THROMBOCYTOSIS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; ITALY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 55849128100     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2008.06.022     Document Type: Article

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