Detecting Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in nasopharyngeal specimens from Paediatric patients with asthma exacerbations in Baghdad: a polymerase chain reaction - gene based study

ABSTRACT

Background: Numerous viral infections have triggered acute asthma exacerbations. Despite the fact that diagnosis of M. pneumoniae infection is based on sero-prevalence studies but molecular diagnostic techniques, such as PCR, have offered improvements in sensitivity, specificity and rapidity over the latest methods: