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Volume 32, Number 2—February 2026

Dispatch

Temporal Clustering of Mycoplasma pneumoniae–Associated Encephalitis and Stroke, South Korea, 2024

Seung Ha Song, Dayun Kang, Ye Kyung Kim, Jaeso Cho, Hye Jin Kim, Woojoong Kim, and Ki Wook YunComments to Author 
Author affiliation: SMG-SNU Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea (S.H. Song, H.J. Kim); Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul (S.H. Song, K.W. Yun); Seoul National University Children’s Hospital, Seoul (D. Kang, W. Kim, K.W. Yun); Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seongnam, South Korea (Y.K. Kim, J. Cho)

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Figure 3

Monthly encephalitis cases by Mycoplasma pneumoniae association during the 2023–2024 epidemic, with concurrent M. pneumoniae infections (October 2023–December 2024). The bars show monthly encephalitis hospitalizations aggregated across 3 hospitals, which were divided into M. pneumoniae–associated and non–M. pneumoniae–associated cases. Data line denotes the number of M. pneumoniae infections identified at the 3 hospitals.

Figure 3. Monthly encephalitis cases by Mycoplasma pneumoniae association during the 2023–2024 epidemic, with concurrent M. pneumoniae infections (October 2023–December 2024). The bars show monthly encephalitis hospitalizations aggregated across 3 hospitals, which were divided into M. pneumoniae–associated and non–M. pneumoniae–associated cases. Data line denotes the number of M. pneumoniae infections identified at the 3 hospitals.

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