Survey of macrolide-resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae in children with community-acquired pneumonia in Switzerland

Swiss Med Wkly. 2014 Sep 25:144:w14041. doi: 10.4414/smw.2014.14041. eCollection 2014.

Authors

Patrick M Meyer Sauteur¹, Barbara Bleisch¹, Antje Voit², Florian P Maurer², Christa Relly¹, Christoph Berger¹, David Nadal¹, Guido V Bloemberg²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, and Children's Research Center (CRC), University Children's Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
² Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

PMID: 25254315
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2014.14041

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology
Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use*
Child
Child, Preschool
Community-Acquired Infections / drug therapy*
Community-Acquired Infections / epidemiology
Drug Resistance, Bacterial*
Female
Genes, rRNA
Humans
Infant
Macrolides / pharmacology
Macrolides / therapeutic use*
Male
Mycoplasma pneumoniae / genetics
Mycoplasma pneumoniae / isolation & purification*
Pneumonia, Mycoplasma / drug therapy*
Pneumonia, Mycoplasma / epidemiology
Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
Switzerland / epidemiology

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Macrolides