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Clinical efficacy of macrolide antibiotics in mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia carrying a macrolide-resistant mutation in the 23 S rRNA gene in pediatric patients.
BMC infectious diseases - 31 Jul 2024
He Mengyuan, Xie Junfeng, Rui Pu, Li Xiaoyu, Lai Min, Xue Hongman, Chen Chun
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BACKGROUND: The global prospective surveillance data showed the re-emergence of mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia (MPP) in Europe and Asia after the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. We sought to observe the effect of macrolide antibiotics in the treatment of MPP carrying a macrolide-resistant mutation gene and the potential of targeted next-generation sequencing (tNGS) as a front-line diagnostic in MPP patients....
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