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Volume 21, Number 3—March 2015
Research

Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Chlamydia spp. Infection in Community-Acquired Pneumonia, Germany, 2011–2012

Roger Dumke, Christiane Schnee, Mathias W. Pletz, Jan Rupp, Enno Jacobs, Konrad Sachse1, Gernot Rohde1Comments to Author , and CAPNETZ Study Group2
Author affiliations: Technical University Dresden Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Dresden, Germany (R. Dumke, E. Jacobs); Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Jena, Germany (C. Schnee, K. Sachse); Jena University Hospital Center for Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Jena (M.W. Pletz); CAPNETZ STIFTUNG, Hannover, Germany (M.W. Pletz, J. Rupp, G. Rohde); University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany (J. Rupp); Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, the Netherlands (G. Rohde)

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Table 2

Comparison of the results of P1 and MLVA typing of 87 Mycoplasma pneumoniae strains from patients with community-acquired pneumonia, Germany, 2011–2012

P1 type
 MLVA types (no. strains)
Subtype 1, n = 51
 1/4/5/7/2 (3), 2/3/6/6/2, 2/4/5/7/2 (2), 3/3/5/6/2 (2), 3/4/5/5/2 (2), 3/4/5/7/2 (5), 4/4/5/6/2 (2), 4/4/5/7/2 (11), 4/4/6/7/2, 5/3/5/6/2, 5/3/6/6/2, 5/4/5/7/2 (11), 6/3/5/7/2, 6/4/5/7/2 (3), 7/4/5/7/2 (3), 9/4/5/7/2
Subtype 2, n = 2
 5/3/6/6/2 (2)
Variant 2a, n = 19
 2/3/5/6/2 (2), 3/3/5/6/2 (6), 4/3/5/6/2 (2), 5/3/5/6/2 (5), 6/3/5/6/2 (2), 6/4/5/6/2, 7/4/5/7/2
Variant 2b, n = 8
 2/3/6/6/2 (4), 5/3/6/6/2 (2), 5/4/6/6/2, 6/3/5/6/2
Variant 2c, n = 7 3/3/5/6/2 (2), 4/3/5/6/2, 5/3/5/6/2 (3), 6/3/5/6/2

*Underlining indicates MLVA types that occur in both subtype 1 and subtype 2/variant 2 strains. MLVA, multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis.

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1Joint senior authors.

2Members of the CAPNETZ Study Group are listed at the end of this article.

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