Evidence map›Paper›PMID 30250831›Full record

ArticleGerms2018

High frequency of

Maryam Arfaatabar, Farzaneh Aminharati, Ghasem Azimi, Abbas Ashtari, Seyed Ali Pourbakhsh, Ensieh Masoorian, Mohammad Reza Pourmand

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Article in Germs, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Maryam ArfaatabarPhD, Department of Pathobiology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Enqelab Square, Tehran, Iran.
Farzaneh AminharatiPhD, Department of Pathobiology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Enqelab Square, Tehran, Iran.
Ghasem AzimiMD, PhD, Department of Internal Medicine, Shahed University of Medical Sciences, in front of the shrine of Imam Khomeini, Freeway Tehran-Qom, Tehran, Iran.
Abbas AshtariDVM, Reference Mycoplasma Laboratory, Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti Street, Hesarak, Karaj, Iran.
Seyed Ali PourbakhshPhD, Reference Mycoplasma Laboratory, Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti Street, Hesarak, Karaj, Iran.
Ensieh MasoorianMSc, Department of Pathobiology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Enqelab Square, Tehran, Iran.
Mohammad Reza PourmandPhD, Department of Pathobiology, School of Public Health, and Biotechnology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Enqelab Square, Tehran, Iran.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introduction

methodsOver a period of 5 months between January and June 2017, 520 patients with suspected CAP, who had been to the hospital outpatient clinics of Tehran University, were enrolled in this study. Throat swab specimens were obtained from 110 outpatients who presented with symptoms of atypical pneumonia.

resultsThe major and minor clinical signs of the patients were dyspnea (67.3%) and nausea (15.5%), respectively. Out of 110 specimens, 25 (22.7%) and 29 (26.4%) isolates were identified to be

conclusionThis is the first report of high frequency of

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culture techniquesepidemiologyMycoplasma pneumoniaepolymerase chain reaction (PCR)

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PMID30250831
PMCPMC6141223

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