An outbreak of Mycoplasma pneumoniae caused by a macrolide-resistant isolate in a nursery school in China

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3748-3752

  Wang, Yong ^a   Qiu, Shaofu ^a   Yang, Guang ^a   Song, Lixue ^c   Su, Wenli ^a   Xu, Yuanyong ^a   Jia, Leili ^a   Wang, Ligui ^a   Hao, Rongzhang ^a   Zhang, Chuanfu ^a   Liu, Jingmei ^a   Fu, Xiuping ^b   He, Jinrong ^b   Zhang, Jingshan ^b   Li, Zhenjun ^b   Song, Hongbin ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^c CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; IBUPROFEN; KITASAMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; LINCOSAMIDE; MACROLIDE; MIKAMYCIN B; OLEANDOMYCIN; PARACETAMOL; RNA 23S; STREPTOGRAMIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHILD; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; COUGHING; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION RISK; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NURSERY SCHOOL; POINT MUTATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SORE THROAT; SYMPTOM; THROAT CULTURE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACROLIDES; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SCHOOLS, NURSERY;

EID: 84862532708     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00142-12     Document Type: Article

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