Ito I, Ishida T, Osawa M, Arita M, Hashimoto T, Hongo T, Mishima M
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan.
Epidemiol Infect. 2001 Oct;127(2):365-7. doi: 10.1017/s0950268801005982.
We describe the prevalence of community-acquired M. pneumoniae pneumonia diagnosed by culture methods in a single institute in Japan from January 1979 to December 1999. Cultures were performed in 2971 pneumonia cases and yielded M. Pneumoniae in 508 cases. The epidemic peaks recurred regularly at 4-year intervals (1980, 84, 88 and 91-2). Although a large epidemic has not occurred since 1992, traces of epidemic periodicity have still persisted from 1992 to 1999 at 3-year intervals.
我们描述了1979年1月至1999年12月间,日本一家机构通过培养方法诊断的社区获得性肺炎支原体肺炎的患病率。对2971例肺炎病例进行了培养,其中508例培养出肺炎支原体。疫情高峰每4年定期出现一次(1980年、1984年、1988年和1991 - 1992年)。尽管自1992年以来未发生大规模疫情,但1992年至1999年期间仍以3年为间隔存在疫情周期性的痕迹。