Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2017)

Macrolide-Resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae Infection, Japan, 2008–2015

  • 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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2310.170106
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23, no. 10
pp. 1703 – 1706

Abstract

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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.

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