Community Outbreak of Macrolide-resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae in Yamagata, Japan in 2009

Abstract

This school-based cluster of macrolide-resistant M. pneumoniae infections, which was identified in 2 geographically close schools, indicates that the transmission principally occurred by close contact between students at school. Monitoring the spread of macrolide-resistant M. pneumoniae and clinical guidelines for the appropriate medication against such infections would be needed to control outbreaks of M. pneumoniae.