| [respiratory tract infections due to mycoplasma pneumoniae in elementary school children; a case report]. | epidemic respiratory tract infections occurred among elementary school children in hiroshima prefecture during june, july and august, 1987. forty (59%) of 68 children who were enrolled in an elementary school were confirmed to have respiratory diseases during this period, ten of whom were hospitalized with diagnoses of pneumonias. diagnoses of m. pneumoniae infection were made from secretions obtained by throat swabs, and by serological studies of blood specimens. twenty-four (77%) of the 31 pat ... | 1989 | 2516107 |
| prevalence of hemoplasma infection among cattle in the western part of japan. | we have examined for hemoplasma infection among cattle in the hiroshima and miyazaki prefectures by using a sensitive real-time pcr, with sybr green i and with melting curve analysis, which allow to distinguish the two bovine hemoplasma species, mycoplasma wenyonii and 'candidatus m. haemobos'. we found 69.4% of 36 cattle in hiroshima and 93.8% of 32 cattle in miyazaki infected with either of these two hemoplasma species. high morbidity in western part of japan may reflect the activity of arthro ... | 2011 | 21799295 |