1. Macrolide-Resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae Infection, Japan, 2008-2015.
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Takaaki Tanaka, Tomohiro Oishi, Ippei Miyata, Shoko Wakabayashi, Mina Kono, Sahoko Ono, Atsushi Kato, Yoko Fukuda, Aki Saito, Eisuke Kondo, Hideto Teranishi, Yuhei Tanaka, Tokio Wakabayashi, Hiroto Akaike, Satoko Ogita, Naoki Ohno, Takashi Nakano, Kihei Terada, Kazunobu Ouchi, and Tanaka, Takaaki
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MYCOPLASMA pneumoniae infections , *MYCOPLASMA pneumoniae , *DRUG resistance in bacteria , *MYCOPLASMA diseases , *CHILDREN - Abstract
We evaluated isolates obtained from children with Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection throughout Japan during 2008-2015. The highest prevalence of macrolide-resistant M. pneumoniae was 81.6% in 2012, followed by 59.3% in 2014 and 43.6% in 2015. The prevalence of macrolide-resistant M. pneumoniae among children in Japan has decreased. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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