Impact and clinical profiles of Mycoplasma pneumoniae co-detection in childhood community-acquired pneumonia

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 1 The results of Mp detection for 4148 patients with CAP

Results	Mp -DNA (BALF)	Mp -DNA (NPA)^a	IgG(paired sera)	NO.
Mp positive (N = 110)	+	+	/	98
	+	+	+	6
	+	+	/	6
Mp negative (N = 4038)	–	+	/	4
	/	+	/	62
	/	–	/	3941
	/	–	–	31

Mp Mycoplasma pneumoniae, CAP community-acquired pneumonia, BALF bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, NPAs nasopharyngeal aspirates
^aThe NPAs were tested simultaneously for Mp, Chlamydia and 11 common respiratory viruses using a GeXP-based multiplex reverse transcription PCR assay, thus Mp-DNA (NPAs) was tested for all patients

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