title: Culturally verified Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia in Japan: a long-term observation from 1979-99.
abstract: We describe the prevalence of community-acquired M. pneumoniae pneumonia diagnosed by culture methods in a single institute in Japan from January 1979 to December 1999. Cultures were performed in 2971 pneumonia cases and yielded M. Pneumoniae in 508 cases. The epidemic peaks recurred regularly at 4-year intervals (1980, 84, 88 and 91-2). Although a large epidemic has not occurred since 1992, traces of epidemic periodicity have still persisted from 1992 to 1999 at 3-year intervals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ishida
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Osawa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Arita
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hashimoto
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hongo
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mishima
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D017714:Community-Acquired Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009177:Mycoplasma pneumoniae / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D010507:Periodicity; D011019:Pneumonia, Mycoplasma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*