Respiratory infections, including mycoplasma pneumoniae, continue to affect children in Chennai, prompting doctors to emphasize prompt diagnosis and treatment.

test for HSV from a concurrent skin lesion (e.g., a cold sore), nasal PCR test for Mycoplasma pneumoniae, and chest x-ray looking for pulmonary infiltrates. A skin biopsy should be performed if in ...

Flu season is here with some other ickiness joining the petri dish party, including allergies, strep, pneumonia, COVID-19 and norovirus.

The epidemiologic characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection, including cyclic epidemics and age distribution in epidemics, differ among populations and may change within a population.

Walking pneumonia is typically caused by a bacterium called Mycoplasma pneumonia. Anyone can get it, but it tends to infect children ages 5 to 17 and people younger than 40, especially when living ...

Allison Ciaccio had a respiratory illness that wouldn't go away. Repeated follow-ups found Stage I lung cancer.

Pneumonia is a lung infection caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, or tuberculosis. Symptoms include fever, cough, chest pain, and shortness of breath. Early diagnosis and treatment are crucial to ...

“We’ve been seeing an uptick of atypical pneumonia. So, mycoplasma pneumonia is another name for that. And they’ve been coming in by the family. I mean, we’ve seen lots and lots of cases recently.