Analysis of culturing results of early infection of throat in 580 cases of mycoplasma pneumonia in children

Objective To discuss the clinical value of mycoplasma pneumoniae(MP) for rapid identification of children with early infection.Methods To culture MP throat swab specimens in 580 cases of children acute respiratory infections using MP culture medium.Results There were 199 positive cases out of 580 children with acute respiratory infection,with a positive rate of 34.3%.The difference between boys and girls was not statistically significant(P0.05).Among all age groups,there were significant differences among 2-4 age group,5-8 age group and 2 years(P0.01).9-14 age group was significantly different with the other three groups(P0.05).Positive rate in spring has the highest value(39.2%),while positive rate in summer has the lowest value(23.1%).Summer group was significantly different from other groups(P0.05).Conclusion MP rapid identification medium detection of mycoplasma pneumoniae is an accurate,simple and fast method,and it is suggested to be the first choice for diagnosis of MP infection in general laboratory.