Mycoplasma pneumoniae cultured from a healthy population aged 8 to 16 [8-16 yaş grubu saglikli popülasyonda kültür yöntemleriyle mycoplasma pneumoniae aranmasi.]

Abstract

Throat Cultures have been taken from 100 persons on May 1986 and 100 persons on December 1986. Finally 200 throat cultures have been taken and cultures were determined for M. pneumoniae. M. pneumoniae has been isolated in 3 female and 2 male cases which sum up to 5 cases (2.5%). All these cases were asymptomatic and 8-16 old-year. All samples has taken in spring. These show parallelism with other research in the same subject. The isolation of M. pneumoniae in 2.5 percent has shown that M. pneumoniae doesn't cause infection very often around Eskişehir area and also has supported that the idea of asymptomatic cases are frequent especially in childhood.