Volume 30, Number 7—July 2024
Research Letter
Large-Scale Outbreak of Mycoplasma pneumoniae Infection, Marseille, France, 2023–2024
Sophie Edouard, Housni Boughammoura, Philippe Colson, Bernard La Scola, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, and Florence Fenollar
Table
Demographic characteristics of 449 patients who had Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection diagnosed using quantitative PCR, Marseille, France, 2014–2022 versus 2023–2024*
| Characteristic | Total |
2014–2022 |
2023–2024 |
p value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. patients |
449 |
231 |
218 |
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| Sex | |||||||
| M | 258 (57) | 137 (59) | 121 (56) | 0.41 |
|||
| F |
191 (43) |
94 (41) |
97 (44) |
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| Median age, y (range) |
10 (0–101) |
15 (0–93) |
8 (0–101) |
<0.001 |
|||
| Age group, y | |||||||
| 0–4 | 117 (26) | 50 (22) | 67 (31) | 0.028 | |||
| 5–14 | 146 (32) | 63 (27) | 83 (38) | 0.015 | |||
| 15–44 | 106 (24) | 67 (29) | 39 (18) | 0.006 | |||
| 45–64 | 40 (9) | 29 (13) | 11 (5) | 0.005 | |||
| >65 |
40 (9) |
22 (9) |
18 (8) |
0.638 |
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| Co-infections | |||||||
| No. patients tested | 316 | 164 | 152 | ||||
| No. patients with co-infection | 114 (36) | 45 (27) | 69 (45) | 0.0008 | |||
| With 1 pathogen | 94 (82) | 41 (91) | 53 (77) | 0.049 | |||
| With >2 pathogens | 20 (17) | 4 (9) | 16 (23) | ||||
| Median age, y (range) | 4 (0–101) | 7 (0–86) | 3 (0–101) | 0.012 | |||
| Age group, y | |||||||
| 0–4 | 58 (51) | 18 (40) | 40 (58) | <0.001 | |||
| 5–14 | 27 (24) | 7 (16) | 20 (29) | 0.005 | |||
| 15–44 | 13 (11) | 10 (22) | 3 (4) | 0.089 | |||
| 45–64 | 8 (7) | 6 (13) | 2 (3) | 0.286 | |||
| >65 | 8 (7) |
4 (9) |
4 (6) |
1 | |||
*Values are no. (%) except as indicated.
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