Mycoplasma pneumoniae outbreak at a university - Georgia, 2012

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 62, Issue 30, 2013, Pages 603-606

  Tobin D'Angelo, Melissa ^a   Martyn, Audrey ^a   Moore, Ashley ^a   Dishman, Hope ^a   Drenzek, Cherie ^a   Turner, Kim ^a   County, Fulton ^a   Hicks, Lauri ^a   Diaz, Maureen ^a   Petrone, Brianna ^a   Wolff, Bernard ^a   Benitez, Alvaro ^a   Winchell, Jonas ^a   Edison, Laura ^b  

^a National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NOTE; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881072517     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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