Investigation of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection in chilalren / 中国基层医药

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate relationship between infection rate of Mycoplasma pneumoniae(MP) in children with corresponding gender, age and season. Methods Mycoplasma pneumoniae IgM (MP-IgM) antibody level in serum was measured utilizing method of passive particle agglutination. Results From 2007 to 2009, MP-IgM antibodies among total 1701 children with pneumoniae were detected in the study, of which 569 cases showed MP-IgM antibodies positive (569/1701,33.5%). The MP-IgM positive rate in male and female patients were 30.1% and 37. 8% respectively and the difference was statistically significant (P ＜ 0. 01). The MP-IgM positive rates in 0 ～ 1year-old group,2 ～ 3 year-old group ,4 ～ 6 year-old group and 7 ～ 14 year-old group were 5.8% ,35.3% ,43.3% and 52.9%, respectively. The disparities of MP-IgM positive rate between the groups was statistically significant (P ＜0.01,P ＜ 0.01 and P ＜ 0.05, respectively). The differences of MP-IgM positive rates during the peroid of 2007,2008and 2009 were statistically significant(P ＜ 0.01), but no difference was significantly exhibited during the peroid of 2008 verse 2009 (P ＞ 0.05). As for onset distribution of season, in year 2007, MP infection rates between the individual seasons were not statistically different. Conclusion MP infection was mainly prevailed in those whose ages were over three years old. MP infection was inclined to occur in female children than in male and the prevalent season was the Spring.