Preference, adaptation and survival of Mycoplasma pneumoniae subtypes in an animal model.

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The interaction between Mycoplasma pneumoniae and its natural host, humans, cannot be studied directly for obvious reasons. Therefore, we used guinea pigs instead, which had been recently introduced as an acceptable alternative host organism. The following experimental approaches were taken to study the pathogen-host relationship: characterization and subtyping of M. pneumoniae strains isolated from human...

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