Position statement of the Spanish Society of Paediatric Infectious diseases on the diagnosis and treatment of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection

• Main Authors: Walter Alfredo Goycochea-Valdivia (Author), Josefa Ares Alvarez (Author), Antonio José Conejo Fernández (Author), Ana Belén Jiménez Jiménez (Author), Irene Maté Cano (Author), Teresa de Jesús Reinoso Lozano (Author), Carlos Rodrigo Gonzalo de Liria (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2024-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Mycoplasma pneumoniae (M. pneumoniae) is a bacterium with particular characteristics that give rise to a broad clinical spectrum, being respiratory infection the most frequent presentation. Infection by M. pneumoniae occurs in cyclical epidemics, and paediatricians in Spain have noticed an increase...