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Volume 26, Number 9—September 2020
Dispatch

Sequence Type Changes Associated with Decreasing Macrolide-Resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Japan

Miyuki Morozumi, Takeshi Tajima, Megumi Sakuma, Michi Shouji, Hidenori Meguro, Kota Saito, Satoshi Iwata, and Kimiko UbukataComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan (M. Morozumi, M. Sakuma, S. Iwata, K. Ubukata); Hakujikai Memorial Hospital, Tokyo (T. Tajima); National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo (M. Shouji); Meguro Clinic, Chiba, Japan (H. Meguro); Saito Pediatric Clinic, Saitama, Japan (K. Saito); National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo (S. Iwata)

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Table

Yearly changes in macrolide-susceptible and macrolide-resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Japan, 2002–2019*

Macrolide susceptibility† 2002–2005 2006–2009 2010–2013 2015–2016 2018–2019 Total
Susceptible 241 (93.1) 161 (62.6) 45 (13.8) 86 (43.7) 47 (88.7) 580
Resistant 18 (6.9) 96 (37.4) 281 (86.2) 111 (56.3) 6 (11.3) 512
Total 259 257 326 197 53 1,092

*Values are no. (%).
†Macrolide susceptibility was distinguished on the basis of a mutation in the 23S rRNA gene and results of susceptibility measurements.

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