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Euro Surveill. Antibiotic prescriptions and laboratory-confirmed cases of Mycoplasma pneumoniae during the epidemic in Sweden in 2011
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A Linde (
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Citation style for this article: Linde A, Ternhag A, T?rner A, Claesson BE. Antibiotic prescriptions and laboratory-confirmed cases of Mycoplasma pneumoniae during the epidemic in Sweden in 2011. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(6):pii=20082. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=20082
Date of submission: 06 February 2012 <HR>Swedish laboratories reported an increase of Mycoplasma pneumoniae during the autumn 2011. Data from the laboratory in Sk?vde, covering 12.9% of the Swedish population, indicate an approximate increase in the number of laboratory-confirmed cases in the whole country, from around 3,500 in 2009 to 11,100 in 2011. Antibiotics are recommended only for M. pneumoniae, not bronchitis, but compared with the autumn 2009, 42,652 more prescriptions of doxycycline and macrolides were registered in the autumn 2011.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 17, Issue 6, 09 February 2012
Rapid communications
Antibiotic prescriptions and laboratory-confirmed cases of Mycoplasma pneumoniae during the epidemic in Sweden in 2011
Rapid communications
Antibiotic prescriptions and laboratory-confirmed cases of Mycoplasma pneumoniae during the epidemic in Sweden in 2011
A Linde (
- Department of Analysis and Prevention, Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, Sweden
- Department of Clinical Microbiology, Unilabs AB, K?rnsjukhuset, Sk?vde, Sweden
Citation style for this article: Linde A, Ternhag A, T?rner A, Claesson BE. Antibiotic prescriptions and laboratory-confirmed cases of Mycoplasma pneumoniae during the epidemic in Sweden in 2011. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(6):pii=20082. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=20082
Date of submission: 06 February 2012 <HR>Swedish laboratories reported an increase of Mycoplasma pneumoniae during the autumn 2011. Data from the laboratory in Sk?vde, covering 12.9% of the Swedish population, indicate an approximate increase in the number of laboratory-confirmed cases in the whole country, from around 3,500 in 2009 to 11,100 in 2011. Antibiotics are recommended only for M. pneumoniae, not bronchitis, but compared with the autumn 2009, 42,652 more prescriptions of doxycycline and macrolides were registered in the autumn 2011.