Ten and a half years seroepidemiology of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection in Denmark
| Autor: | K. Lind, M. W. Bentzon |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Male Mycoplasma pneumoniae medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Adolescent Epidemiology Denmark Mycoplasmataceae Biology medicine.disease_cause Serology Sex Factors Internal medicine Agglutination Tests Pneumonia Mycoplasma medicine Humans Child Incidence (epidemiology) Incidence Complement Fixation Tests Age Factors Infant biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Complement fixation test Antibodies Bacterial Pneumonia Infectious Diseases Child Preschool Immunology Mollicutes Female Research Article |
| Popis: | SUMMARYThe study was based on a computerized card index of 9161 patients who had at least one positive blood specimen in theMycoplasma pneumoniaecomplement fixation test. A total of 12562 specimens from these patients had been sent to Statens Seruminstitut from hospitals and general practitioners during a 10·5-year period. The period encompassed a previously described endemic period in a 30-year study of the epidemiological pattern ofM. pneumoniaeinfection in Denmark [1], The serological data presented support the hypothesis advanced here that a more than sixfold increase of children in day care might have contributed to a change in the epidemiological pattern. The correlation between age and level of specific antibodies, as well as persistence of seropositivity, were also investigated. |
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