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Comparative genomic analysis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae isolated in the United Kingdom, between 2016 and 2024
8 Oct 2025
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BACKGROUND: Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a bacterium that causes upper and lower respiratory infections in children and adults. Epidemics occur over the winter period every few years with the most recent seen in 2023/24. These epidemics are thought to be due to the circulation of p1 type variants of M. pneumoniae which have cyclic epidemiology, with the peaks of infection driven by naïve individuals, mainly those <...
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