Emerging Infectious Diseases (Aug 2015)

Macrolide-Resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae, United States

  • Xiaotian Zheng,
  • Stella Lee,
  • Rangaraj Selvarangan,
  • Xuan Qin,
  • Yi-Wei Tang,
  • Jeffrey Stiles,
  • Tao Hong,
  • Kathleen Todd,
  • Amy E. Ratliff,
  • Donna M. Crabb,
  • Li Xiao,
  • T. Prescott Atkinson,
  • Ken B. Waites

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2108.150273
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 8
pp. 1470 – 1472

Abstract

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Macrolide-resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MRMP) is highly prevalent in Asia and is now being reported from Europe. Few data on MRMP are available in the United States. Using genotypic and phenotypic methods, we detected high-level MRMP in 13.2% of 91 M. pneumoniae­–positive specimens from 6 US locations.

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