| mycoplasma pneumoniae respiratory illness - two rural counties, west virginia, 2011. | on october 28, 2011, the west virginia department of health and human resources notified cdc of an increase in pneumonia cases among school-aged children in two rural counties. mycoplasma pneumoniae was the suspected cause, based on epidemiology, clinical presentation, and testing of specimens sent to cdc. three of six nasopharyngeal swabs were positive for m. pneumoniae in testing by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qpcr). the west virginia department of health and human resour ... | 2012 | 23076092 |