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. 2008 Jan;52(1):348-50.
doi: 10.1128/AAC.00779-07. Epub 2007 Oct 22.

Increased macrolide resistance of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in pediatric patients with community-acquired pneumonia

Miyuki Morozumi  1 , Satoshi Iwata, Keiko Hasegawa, Naoko Chiba, Reiko Takayanagi, Keita Matsubara, Eiichi Nakayama, Keisuke Sunakawa, Kimiko Ubukata; Acute Respiratory Diseases Study Group
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Increased macrolide resistance of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in pediatric patients with community-acquired pneumonia

Miyuki Morozumi et al. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2008 Jan.

Abstract

Among 380 Mycoplasma pneumoniae isolates from 3,678 pediatric patients with community-acquired pneumonia, 50 macrolide-resistant strains had an A2063G transition in domain V of the 23S rRNA, whereas 5 had an A2064G transition. These resistant strains increased rapidly from April 2002 to December 2006.

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FIG. 1.
FIG. 1.
Year-by-year increases in the frequency of MLr M. pneumoniae cases. The dotted line can be expressed by the equation, y = 7x − 8.62 (r = 0.9510).
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