Publications

respiratory infections due to mycoplasma pneumoniae in infants and children.	systematic monitoring of infants and children in a day-care center revealed infection with mycoplasma pneumoniae to be more common than expected. most of these infections were asymptomatic (74%) or associated with mild, nonspecific coryza and cough. infected children ranged in age from 2 months to 8 years. complement-fixing and growth-inhibiting antibodies in serum tended to wane rapidly and reinfection was detected in five children after one and one-half to 3 years. in vitro lymphocyte studies ...	1975	1143973
the etiologic and epidemiologic spectrum of bronchiolitis in pediatric practice.	to develop a broad understanding of the causes and patterns of occurrence of wheezing associated respiratory infections, we analyzed data from an 11-year study of acute lower respiratory illness in a pediatric practice. although half of the wari occurred in children less than 2 years of age, wheezing continued to be observed in 19% of children greater than 9 years of age who had lower respiratory illness. males experienced lri 1.25 times more often than did females; the relative risk of males fo ...	1979	448557
the epidemiology of tracheobronchitis in pediatric practice.	epidemiologic characteristics of childhood tracheobronchitis occurring over a 104-month period in chapel hill, nc, were ascertained and compared to those of other pediatric lower respiratory illness (lri) syndromes. tracheobronchitis accounted for 40% of all lri seen at the community's only pediatric practice. tracheobronchitis incidence was highest during the first two years of life, through the ratio of tracheobronchitis incidence to total lri incidence increased with age. a viral pathogen or ...	1981	6797294
acute lower respiratory tract infections in nonhospitalized children.		1986	3009769
epidemic pneumonia in university students.	longitudinal surveillance of pneumonia in a university student health service was conducted from 1965-1971 and 1984-1987. of 104 pneumonia cases documented by chest x-ray, only six were presumed to have bacterial etiology; the remaining 98 were characteristic of atypical pneumonia syndrome. mycoplasma pneumoniae was the etiology in 51% of the pneumonias in the 1960s and 13% in 1984-1987. pneumonia incidence was highest in the fall semester in seven of 11 years studied. annual incidence followed ...	1989	2514160
the prevalence of mycoplasma pneumoniae in ambulatory patients with nonstreptococcal sore throat.	several studies have implicated mycoplasma pneumoniae as an important cause of nonstreptococcal pharyngitis in certain clinical settings. this study was performed to determine the prevalence of m. pneumoniae infection in family practice patients with sore throats and to identify patient characteristics predictive of this infection. m. pneumoniae throat cultures were obtained from 419 patients aged five years or older who were seen in one of four family practice offices with a complaint of sore t ...	1991	1903744