The lung is primary site of infection with M. pneumoniae, other sites are the skin, central nervous system, heart, and joint.
School-aged children and young adult experienced high attack rate, especially in a defined group or population, such as school and military pupulation.
Authors reviewed clinical and radiological features of 34 cases of serologically pro-ven Mycoplasma pneumonia in hospitalized children from January 1986 to January 1988.
Male to female ratio was 24:10 (2.4:1) and 61.8% of them were 5 through 8 year.old.
The clinical symptoms were cough, sputum, sore throat, fever and duration of the symptom before admission was from. 6 days to. 10 days.
The radiologic findings were bronchopneumonic pattern in 14.1%, with lobar in 26.5% and segmental in. 14.7%, normal in 11.8%, lobal atelectasis in 2,9%.
Mean radiologic resolution period was 8.5% days in bronchopneumonia pattern and 6.8 days in alveolar consolidation. .
Therefore more rapid resolution was observed in alveolar consolidation than bron-chopneumonia.
Extrapulmonary manifestations were hematuria, skin rash and hepatomegaly and otitis media.
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