Report for: Antibiotics for community-acquired lower respiratory tract infections secondary to Mycoplasma pneumoniae in children

Title	Antibiotics for community-acquired lower respiratory tract infections secondary to Mycoplasma pneumoniae in children
Published in	Cochrane database of systematic reviews, January 2015
DOI	10.1002/14651858.cd004875.pub5
Pubmed ID	25566754
Authors	Samantha J Gardiner, John B Gavranich, Anne B Chang
Abstract	Mycoplasma pneumoniae (M. pneumoniae) is widely recognised as an important cause of community-acquired lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) in children. Pulmonary manifestations are typically tracheobronchitis or pneumonia but M. pneumoniae is also implicated in wheezing episodes in both asthmatic and non-asthmatic individuals. Although antibiotics are used to treat LRTIs, a review of several major textbooks offers conflicting advice for using antibiotics in the management of M. pneumoniae LRTI in children.

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Spain	3	30%
Colombia	2	20%
United States	1	10%
Unknown	4	40%

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Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	7	70%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	1	10%
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	1	10%
Scientists	1	10%

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United Kingdom	1	<1%
United States	1	<1%
Unknown	212	99%

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Student > Bachelor	31	14%
Student > Master	23	11%
Other	21	10%
Researcher	16	7%
Student > Ph. D. Student	16	7%
Other	55	26%
Unknown	52	24%

Readers by discipline	Count	As %
Medicine and Dentistry	89	42%
Nursing and Health Professions	15	7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology	7	3%
Unspecified	7	3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences	6	3%
Other	22	10%
Unknown	68	32%

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Antibiotics for community-acquired lower respiratory tract infections secondary to Mycoplasma pneumoniae in children

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