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Epidemiology of Mycoplasma pneumoniae Infection in Families
Abstract
The transmission and clinical manifestations of infection withMycoplasma pneumoniaewere studied in 114 families in which there was a case of atypical pneumonia.M pneumoniaewas isolated from a throat culture of the index pneumonia patient in 36 of these families. Transmission to other family members occurred in 23 of the 36 families. In these 23 families, 84% of the children and 41% of the adults were infected. The index cases are included. Of the total 59 patients with family-contact infections, 42 had lower-respiratory-tract symptoms, 6 had pharyngitis alone, 9 (all children) were asymptomatic, and 2 had probably unrelated symptoms. The time intervals between cases within a family suggested a median incubation period of 23 days. Treatment with tetracycline seemed neither to cure the symptoms completely nor to abolish the carrier state that often lasted one to three months.
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- Authors
- Foy, H. M.
- Venue
- JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 1966-09-12
- Volume
- 197
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 859
- ISSN
- 0002-9955 (ISSN-L)
- 0098-7484
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- W1998972425
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- 193
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- FWCI
- 20.77
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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