Resurgence of pediatric Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in Southeast Texas, Nov 2023-June 2024

Margaret Taylor Danner; Heather Colvin Binns; Khanh Nguyen; Coreen Johnson; Jim Dunn; Denver Niles; Diana K Nguyen

doi:10.1093/jpids/piae119

Resurgence of pediatric Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in Southeast Texas, Nov 2023-June 2024

J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2024 Dec 2:piae119. doi: 10.1093/jpids/piae119. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Margaret Taylor Danner¹, Heather Colvin Binns², Khanh Nguyen¹, Coreen Johnson², Jim Dunn², Denver Niles^{1

2}, Diana K Nguyen¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
² Department of Pathology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.

PMID: 39673412
DOI: 10.1093/jpids/piae119

Abstract

We conducted a retrospective review of children tested for Mycoplasma pneumoniae from January 1, 2020-June 30, 2024. M. pneumoniae PCR positivity increased starting in November 2023, peaking at 18.3% in June 2024. During the resurgence, children with laboratory-confirmed infection often had severe respiratory disease or extrapulmonary manifestations.

Keywords: Mycoplasma pneumoniae; atypical pneumonia; epidemiology; reactive infectious mucocutaneous eruption; walking pneumonia.

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