Prevalence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae-associated respiratory tract infections in hospitalized children: Results of a 4-year prospective study in Tunis

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 103-109

  Touati, Arabella ^a   Pereyre, Sabine ^b   Bouziri, Asma ^c   Achour, Wafa ^a   Khaldi, Ammar ^c   Jaballah, Najla Ben ^c   Bébéar, Cécile ^b   Hassen, Assia Ben ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE GREFFE DE MOELLE OSSEUSE   (Tunisia)

^b Univ Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2   (France)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Children respiratory tract infections; Diagnosis; Mycoplasma pneumoniae; Tunisia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; RNA 16S; TETRACYCLINE;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZED CHILD; HUMAN; INFANT; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SERODIAGNOSIS; TUNISIA;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEROLOGIC TESTS; TUNISIA;

EID: 77956577319     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2010.05.010     Document Type: Article

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