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J. Clin. Microbiol. doi:10.1128/JCM.01926-09
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An Outbreak of Acute Respiratory Disease Caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae Onboard a Deployed US Navy Ship

Joseph A Sliman, David Metzgar*, David C Asseff, Robert G Coon, Dennis J Faix, and Stephen Lizewski

Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit 6, Pearl Harbor, HI; Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit 5, San Diego, CA; Department of Respiratory Diseases Research, Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, CA

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: david.metzgar{at}med.navy.mil.


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Abstract

We identified 179 cases of acute respiratory illness including 50 cases of radiographically-confirmed pneumonia over the course of four months on a deployed US Navy vessel. Laboratory tests showed Mycoplasma pneumoniae to be the etiological agent. This report represents the first published description of a shipboard outbreak of this pathogen.






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