Talk:Mycoplasma pneumonia

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Ideal sources for Wikipedia's health content are defined in the guideline Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine) and are typically review articles. Here are links to possibly useful sources of information about Mycoplasma pneumonia.

PubMed provides review articles from the past five years (limit to free review articles)
The TRIP database provides clinical publications about evidence-based medicine.
Other potential sources include: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and CDC

Text and/or other creative content from this version of Mycoplasma pneumoniae was copied or moved into Mycoplasma pneumonia with this edit on 10 December 2023. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

Compare to Chlamydophila pneumoniae article[edit]

This bacterium is, in importance, in the same class as Chlamydophila pneumoniae, as the two most common causes of atypical pneumonia. And yet, the Wikipedia entry for Chlamydophila pneumoniae has a much higher quality than the one for Mycoplasma pneumonia. I would suggest using the Chlamydophila pneumoniae article as a model.

Is this even a sentence?[edit]

Taken from special:permalink/1020846175#Diagnosis

M. pneumoniae infections can be differentiated from other types of pneumonia by the relatively slow progression of symptoms. A positive blood test for cold-hemagglutinins in 50–70% of patients after 10 days of infection (cold-hemagglutinin-test should be used with caution or not at all, since 50% of the tests are false-positive), lack of bacteria in a Gram-stained sputum sample, and a lack of growth on blood agar.

Perhaps this is better:

M. pneumoniae infections can be differentiated from other types of pneumonia by the relatively slow progression of symptoms. Other indicators are:

A positive blood test for cold-hemagglutinins in 50–70% of patients after 10 days of infection (cold-hemagglutinin-test should be used with caution or not at all, since 50% of the tests are false-positive)
A lack of bacteria in a Gram-stained sputum sample
A lack of growth on blood agar

I only do math and physics articles, and lack the expertise to confidently insert this correction myself.--Guy vandegrift (talk) 21:32, 14 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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