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Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection and its genotypical characterization in children of Hokkaido, Japan.
In vivo (Athens, Greece) - 1 Jan 2000
Numazaki Kei, Umetsu Masao, Adachi Noriaki
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the etiology of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections we conducted a prospective study covering the total pediatric population in Hokkaido, Japan. Paired sera for serologic assays were available for more than half of the cases (n = 921; 398 as pneumonia and 523 as bronchitis). The nasopharyngeal swabs were also collected for isolation and PCR study. The types of P1 gene from clinical isolates of M....
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