title: [Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia: serologic study of a family outbreak in primary care].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the clinical-radiological, epidemiological, therapeutic and evolutive characteristics of an outbreak of atypical Pneumonia in a family, which was serologically diagnosed by means of the technique of complement fixation of Pneumonia caused by Mycoplasma.
  
  
  METHODS
  A descriptive study.
  
  
  METHODS
  An urban Health Centre.
  
  
  METHODS
  A family of 7 members, consisting of father, mother and five children.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Three presented Pneumonia caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae, with the other family members remaining asymptomatic and serologically negative. The three cases evolved until cure. Treatment was with Macrolides in two of the cases and Penicillin in the other. Clinical-radiological dissociation existed in two of the patients. 33% had a secondary attack.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The accessibility of Primary Care to microserological methods, together with the greater ease with which this level of Care can reach the family environment, allows for more precise knowledge of infectious epidemic outbreaks which occur in the community.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Salud Universitario San Pablo, Sevilla.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Santos Lozano
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lapetra Peralta
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rodríguez Morcillo
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: García de la Corte
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mayoral Sánchez
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rivera Benítez
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011019:Pneumonia, Mycoplasma / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011320:Primary Health Care; D012698:Serologic Tests; D013030:Spain
vernacular_title: Neumonía por Mycoplasma pneumoniae: estudio serológico de un brote familiar en atención primaria.