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Clinical severity of Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) infection is associated with bacterial load in oropharyngeal secretions but not with MP genotype.
BMC infectious diseases - 25 Feb 2010
Nilsson Anna C, Björkman Per, Welinder-Olsson Christina, Widell Anders, Persson Kenneth
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BACKGROUND: Disease severity in Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) infection could potentially be related to bacterial factors such as MP genotype (MP1 or MP2; distinguished by different adhesions proteins) or bacterial load in airway secretions. We have compared these parameters in patients who were hos...
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