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Volume 27, Number 6—June 2021
Research

Macrolide-Resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae Infections in Children, Ohio, USA

Mariana M. Lanata1, Huanyu Wang, Kathy Everhart, Melisa Moore-Clingenpeel, Octavio Ramilo, and Amy LeberComments to Author 
Author affiliation: Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA

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Table 8

Antimicrobial drug treatment for children infected with Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Ohio, USA, 2015–2019*

Characteristic MRMp, n = 12 MSMp, n = 332 p value
Patients with previous antimicrobial drug treatment, no. (%) 5 (42) 106 (32) 0.5339
Nonmacrolide 5 (42) 102 (31) 0.5262
Macrolide
3 (25)
7 (2.1)
0.0017
Definitive treatment during medical encounter, no. (%)
Azithromycin 9 (75) 317 (95.5) 0.0197
Levofloxacin 3 (25) 15 (4.5) 0.0267

*Bold type indicates statistical significance. MRMp, macrolide-resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae; MSMp, macrolide-sensitive Mycoplasma pneumoniae.

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1Current affiliation: Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, USA.

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