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Volume 31, Number 12—December 2025
Research Letter
Macrolide-Resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae in Children, Ohio, USA
Huanyu Wang
, Tori Embry, Kathy Everhart, Morgan Szekely, Jeanette Taveras, Sophonie J. Oyeniran, and Amy L. Leber
, Tori Embry, Kathy Everhart, Morgan Szekely, Jeanette Taveras, Sophonie J. Oyeniran, and Amy L. Leber
Table
Mycoplasma pneumoniae testing volume, number of positive tests, sequencing volume, resistance detection, and azithromycin prescriptions, by month, Ohio, USA, September 2023–May 2025*
| Month | Total cohort |
Urgent care center cohort |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. samples tested | No. (%) positive | No. (%) sequenced | No. (%) resistant | No. samples tested | No. (%) positive | No. (%) sequenced | No. (%) resistant | Azithromycin prescription rate† |
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| 2023 | |||||||||||
| Sep | 818 | 5 (0.6) | 0 | NA | 38 | 0 | 0 | NA | 4 | ||
| Oct | 1,001 | 29 (2.9) | 0 | NA | 55 | 6 (10.9) | 0 | NA | 6 | ||
| Nov | 1,348 | 59 (4.4) | 0 | NA | 102 | 7 (6.9) | 0 | NA | 8 | ||
| Dec |
1,697 |
62(3.7) |
0 |
NA |
160 |
13 (8.1) |
0 |
NA |
9 |
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| 2024 | |||||||||||
| Jan | 1,388 | 57 (4.1) | 6 (10.5) | 0 | 79 | 13 (16.5) | 5 (38.5) | 0 | 6 | ||
| Feb | 1,303 | 29 (2.3) | 6 (20.7) | 0 | 76 | 4 (5.3) | 2 (50.0) | 0 | 5 | ||
| Mar | 1,085 | 45 (4.2) | 1 (2.2) | 0 | 62 | 12 (19.4) | 1 (8.3) | 0 | 5 | ||
| Apr | 965 | 56 (5.8) | 27 (48.2) | 0 | 73 | 14 (19.2) | 10 (71.4) | 0 | 6 | ||
| May | 1,045 | 106 (10.1) | 47 (44.3) | 0 | 130 | 36 (27.7) | 21 (58.3) | 0 | 8 | ||
| Jun | 1,020 | 266 (28.1) | 145 (54.1) | 1 (0.7) | 251 | 126 (50.2) | 82 (65.1) | 1 (1.2) | 25 | ||
| Jul | 1,318 | 407 (30.9) | 226 (55.5) | 2 (0.9) | 396 | 194 (48.7) | 124 (64.3) | 2 (1.6) | 35 | ||
| Aug | 2,009 | 642 (32.0) | 285 (44.4) | 10 (3.9) | 761 | 343 (45.1) | 180 (52.5) | 4 (2.2) | 51 | ||
| Sep | 3,067 | 860 (28.0) | 252 (29.3) | 11 (4.4) | 1,253 | 479 (38.2) | 133 (27.8) | 3 (3.0) | 69 | ||
| Oct | 5,657 | 1,831 (32.4) | 299 (16.3) | 26 (8.7) | 2,084 | 826 (39.6) | 108 (13.1) | 6 (5.6) | 109 | ||
| Nov | 6,943 | 1,649 (23.8) | 276 (16.7) | 13 (4.7) | 2,322 | 693 (29.8) | 117 (16.9) | 3 (2.6) | 131 | ||
| Dec |
6,210 |
1,288 (20.7) |
270 (21.0) |
17 (6.3) |
1,976 |
572 (29.0) |
120 (21.0) |
6 (5.0) |
109 |
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| 2025 | |||||||||||
| Jan | 2,779 | 388 (14.0) | 121 (31.2) | 8 (6.6) | 587 | 146 (24.9) | 56 (38.4) | 2 (3.5) | 37 | ||
| Feb | 2,032 | 118 (5.8) | 27 (22.9) | 2 (7.4) | 300 | 36 (12.0) | 3 (8.3) | 1 (33.3) | 13 | ||
| Mar | 1,452 | 38 (2.6) | 14 (36.8) | 0 | 174 | 20 (11.5) | 9 (45.0) | 0 | 6 | ||
| Apr | 1,257 | 26 (2.1) | 8 (30.8) | 0 | 132 | 2 (1.5) | 2 (100) | 0 | 6 | ||
| May |
926 |
8 (0.9) |
4 (50.0) |
0 |
131 |
4 (3.1) |
2 (50.0) |
0 |
7 |
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| Total | 45,320 | 7,969 (17.6) | 2,014 (25.3) | 90 (4.5) | 11,142 | 3,545 (31.8) | 975 (27.5) | 28 (2.9) | |||
*NA, not available. †Per 1,000 patients.
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