Source: Annual Congress 2002 - Chlamydia and Mycoplasma: diagnostic methods and relation to lung disease
Disease area: Paediatric lung diseases, Respiratory infections



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A. Roth, D. Vollenbroich, M. Bender, M. Allewelt, O. Burkhardt, H. Mauch, H. Lode (Berlin, Germany). PCR is a sensitive and specific method for the laboratory diagnosis of mycoplasma pneumonia. Eur Respir J 2002; 20: Suppl. 38, 1451

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