Carriage of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in the Upper Respiratory Tract of Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Children: An Observational Study
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- 14 May 2013
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- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 10 (5) , e1001444
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001444
Abstract
In order to determine the possible asymptomatic carriage of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in the upper respiratory tracts of children, Emiel Spuesens and colleagues investigate the prevalence of M. pneumoniae in symptomatic and asymptomatic children at a hospital in The Netherlands. Please see later in the article for the Editors' SummaryKeywords
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