Article
[Genotyping of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in nasopharyngeal aspirate from children with pneumonia in Zhejiang Province].
Zhonghua er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of pediatrics - 1 Oct 2011
Zhang Li, Chen Zhi-min, Shen Zheng, Li Shu-xian, Xu Dan, Tang Lan-fang
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: The P1 protein of Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) plays an important role in the pathogenesis of MP pneumonia. It mediates the attachment of the pathogen to host cells and elicits a strong humoral immune response during infection. In early studies, only two types of MP P1 genes were assumed to exist. Later, eight subtypes of MP P1 genes and some variations of P1 gene were reported. However, there are no...
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