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SUBMITTER: Sun H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3667773 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sun Hongmei H Xue Guanhua G Yan Chao C Li Shaoli S Cao Ling L Yuan Yi Y Zhao Hanqing H Feng Yanling Y Wang Liqiong L Fan Zhaoyang Z
PloS one 20130530 5
Mycoplasma pneumoniae is one of the major respiratory bacterial pathogens that cause pneumonia in humans. Multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA) is currently the most discriminative method for typing M. pneumoniae strains. To better understand the epidemic of M. pneumoniae-related pneumonia in pediatric patients in Beijing, China, we performed MLVA analysis on 118 specimens collected during an epidemic from 2010-2012. Eleven distinct MLVA types were identified, including fo ...[more]