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Isolation of Mycoplasma pneumoniae From Adults With Respiratory Infections
RODOLFO L. JAO, MD;
MARY RUBENIS, BS;
GEORGE GEE JACKSON, MD
Arch Intern Med. 1966;117(4):520-526.
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IN A number of historic developments within the past two decades, the microorganism known as the Eaton agent was shown to be a principal cause of primary atypical pneumonia in man.1-14 Originally considered to be a virus,5 it was later characterized as a filterable agent which grows extracellularly with the properties of a pleuropenumonia-like organism (PPLO).15-19 It has been classified as Mycoplasma pneumoniae.20 Clinical, seroepidemiologic, and controlled therapeutic studies in military populations,21-27 prison volunteers,28,29 industrial employees,13 pediatric ward patients,30,31 and in college students 32 have indicated the important and pathogenic role of M pneumoniae in the causation of human respiratory disease and its susceptibility to tetracycline.
Our study was undertaken to further determine among civilian adults the occurrence and significance of PPLO in patients with various types of respiratory illnesses.
Materials and Methods
From August 1963 to April 1964, 197 patients hospitalized for pneumonia in the medical wards of the
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Author Affiliations
CHICAGO
From the Research and Educational and the Cook County hospitals, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago.
Footnotes
Received for publication Sept 17, 1965; accepted Dec 7.
Reprint requests to University of Illinois College of Medicine, PO Box 6998, Chicago, Ill 60680 (Dr. Jackson).
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