Gene

Internal medicine

Genotype

Virology

Variable number tandem repeat

Programming language

Pneumonia

Burkholderia pseudomallei

Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Multiple Loci VNTR Analysis

Computer science

Bacteria

Genetics

Medicine

Subtyping

Biology

Microbiology

Molecular epidemiology

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a major cause of community-acquired pneumonia. There are limited data in the United States on the molecular epidemiological characteristics of M. pneumoniae . We collected 446 M. pneumoniae -positive specimens from 9 states between August 2012 and October 2018. Culture, antimicrobial susceptibility testing, P1 subtyping, and multilocus VNTR (variable-number tandem repeats) analysis (MLVA) were performed to characterize the isolates.

Molecular Characterization of Mycoplasma pneumoniae Isolates in the United States from 2012 to 2018