Clinical severity of Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) infection is associated with bacterial load in oropharyngeal secretions but not with MP genotype

BACKGROUND: Disease severity in Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MP) infection could potentially be related to bacterial factors such as MP genotype (MP1 or MP2; distinguished by different adhesions proteins) or bacterial load in airway secretions. We have compared these parameters in patients who were hospit...

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Autores principales: Nilsson, Anna C, Björkman, Per, Welinder-Olsson, Christina, Widell, Anders, Persson, Kenneth
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2837002/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20184731
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-10-39

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2837002/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20184731
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-10-39

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