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Volume 30, Number 8—August 2024
Dispatch

Macrolide-Resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae Infections among Children before and during COVID-19 Pandemic, Taiwan, 2017–2023

Tsung-Hua Wu, Yu-Ping Fang, Fang-Ching Liu, Hui-Hsien Pan, Yu-Ying Yang, Chiah-Sing Song, and Chun-Yi LeeComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Show Chwan Memorial Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan (T.-H. Wu, Y.-Y. Yang); College of Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan (T.-H. Wu, C.-Y. Lee); Chang Bing Show Chwan Memorial Hospital, Changhua (Y.-P. Fang, C.-S. Song, C.-Y Lee); Jen-Ai Hospital, Taichung (F.-C. Liu); Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung (H.-H. Pan)

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Table 1

Annual and seasonal distribution of macrolide-resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections among children before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, Taiwan, 2017–2023*

Year No. positive cases (%)
 p value†
Total no. cases Spring, Mar–May Summer, Jun–Aug Autumn, Sep–Nov Winter, Dec–Feb
2017 67 (43.23) 13 (30.23) 9 (21.43) 21 (65.63) 24 (63.16) <0.001
2018 54 (58.06) 17 (65.38) 18 (81.82) 4 (57.14) 15 (39.47) 0.010
2019 17 (38.64) 4 (14.29) 13 (81.25) ND ND NA
2020 21 (16.80) 8 (61.54) 7 (41.18) 6 (12.50) 0 <0.001
2021 10 (13.33) 10 (24.39) 0 0 0 0.016
2022 16 (11.59) 11 (28.21) 2 (12.50) 3 (4.05) 0 0.002
2023 24 (17.14) 5 (13.51) 13 (37.14) 3 (9.38) 3 (8.33) 0.008
Total
 209 (27.14)
 68 (29.96)
 62 (41.61)
 37 (18.14)
 42 (22.11)
 <0.001
p value‡ <0.001

*The study period ended December 2023. NA, not applicable; ND, no data. †p value by Fisher exact test to examine the relationship between season and infection. ‡p value by Χ2 test to examine the relationship between year and infection.

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