| [asymptomatic pharyngeal carriage of mycoplasma pneumoniae in chilean children]. | pcr has become a sensitive option for the rapid detection of mycoplasma pneumoniae in respiratory specimens, but little is known of the frequency of its asymptomatic carriage or persistence in the throat after mycoplasma disease in healthy children. to investigate the frequency of asymptomatic carriage of m. pneumoniae in children, we studied by pcr throat specimens from 185 respiratory asymptomatic children aged 1-14 years, enrolled at two pediatric ambulatory health services of santiago, chile ... | 2005 | 16077892 |
| identification of p1 types and variants of mycoplasma pneumoniae during an epidemic in chile. | this study was conducted to determine the types of m. pneumoniae prevalent in adults presenting with community-acquired pneumonia during an epidemic period, and to scrutinize a variable region of the repmp4 element for the detection of p1 variants. all 23 clinical specimens pcr-positive for m. pneumoniae obtained in two hospitals in santiago, chile, from 2005 to 2006 were typed by a multiplex pcr directly and then the repmp4 fragment of 18 specimens was sequenced. a predominance of m. pneumoniae ... | 2010 | 20448063 |
| detection of mycoplasma pneumoniae in adult community-acquired pneumonia by pcr and serology. | diagnosis of pneumonia caused by mycoplasma pneumoniae in adults is hampered by a lack of rapid and standardized tests for detection. this prospective study was conducted to compare the diagnostic values of an indirect immunofluorescence assay and a 16s rrna gene pcr for the diagnosis of m. pneumoniae pneumonia in adults. from february 2005 to january 2008, 357 patients (53.8 % males, median age 63 years, range 18-94) admitted for community-acquired pneumonia (cap) to two hospitals in santiago, ... | 2008 | 19018018 |