| prevalence of mycoplasma pneumoniae-associated respiratory tract infections in hospitalized children: results of a 4-year prospective study in tunis. | specific microbiologic, molecular, and serologic assays are hardly available in tunis to confirm a suspected infection of mycoplasma pneumoniae (mp). these diagnosis methods were used for the first time in a tunisian prospective study to estimate the prevalence of mp infection in children and to evaluate their usefulness for diagnosis. a total of 540 children hospitalized in tunis for lower respiratory tract infections (lrtis) between 2005 and 2009 and 580 clinical specimens were investigated fo ... | 2010 | 20846581 |