Study of Prevalence of Community Acquired Mycoplasma pneumoniae Infections at KIMS Hospital, Hubballi, India

The atypical respiratory bacterial pathogens Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Chlamydia pneumoniae and Legionella pneumophila are now recognised as a significant cause of acute respiratory-tract infections, but they remain colourless after Gram-staining and are difficult to identify by conventional bacterial culture tests. It is reported that patients with atypical pneumonia were more likely to have normal or reduced white bloodcell counts.However some published data showed that between atypical pneumonia and general bacterial pneumonia, there were no significant differences in the International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 5 Number 2(2016) pp. 707-710 Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com