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Molecular Characterization of Mycoplasma pneumoniae Isolates in the United States from 2012 to 2018.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 22 Sept 2020
Xiao L, Ratliff A E, Crabb D M, Mixon E, Qin X, Selvarangan R, Tang Y-W, Zheng X, Dien Bard J, Hong T, Prichard M, Brooks E, Dallas S, Duffy L B, Fowler K B, Atkinson T P, Waites K B
Abstract excerpt
Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a major cause of community-acquired pneumonia. There are limited data in the United States on the molecular epidemiological characteristics of M. pneumoniae We collected 446 M. pneumoniae-positive specimens from 9 states between August 2012 and October 2018. Culture, antimicrobial susceptibility testing, P1 subtyping, and multilocus VNTR (variable-number tandem repeats) analysis (MLVA)...
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