Pneumonia outbreaks due to re-emergence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Patrick M. Meyer Sauteur, Michael L. Beeton, Sabine Pereyre, Cécile Bébéar, Marie Gardette, Nadège Hénin, Noémie Wagner, Adrien Fischer, Alessandra Vitale, Baptiste Lemaire, Gilbert Greub, René Brouillet, Onya Opota, Petra Zimmermann, Philipp Agyeman, Christoph Aebi, Michael Buettcher, Marisa Hostettler, Lisa Kottanattu, Valeria Gaia, Frank Imkamp, Adrian Egli, Christoph Berger, Semjon Sidorov, Ester Osuna, Romy Tilen, Anita Niederer-Loher, G Dollenmaier, Florence Barbey, Ulrich Heininger, Daniel Goldenberger, Branislav Ivan, Peter M. Keller, Cihan Papan, Sören L. Becker, Johannes Förster, Colin R. MacKenzie, Birgit Henrich, Melissa Vermeulen, Nathalie Bossuyt, Veerle Matheeussen, Mireille van Westreenen, Marius Vogel, Annemarie M. C. van Rossum, Baharak Afshar, Simon Cottrell, Catherine Moore, Søren Anker Uldum, Hanne‐Dorthe Emborg, Karolina Gullsby, Miia K. Laine, Ville Peltola, Santtu Heinonen, Henrik Døllner, Frode Gran Width, Andreas Christensen, Danilo Buonsenso, Fernanda Rodrigues, Jorge Rodrigues, Katerina Tsantila, Minos Matsas, Eleni Kalogera, Evangelia Petridou, Ioannis Kopsidas, Darja Keše, Ran Nir‐Paz, Hila Elinav, Ayelet Michael-Gayego, Tomohiro Oishi, Takeshi Saraya, Tsuyoshi Kenri, Pei Wang, Adong Shen, Bin Cao, Yu‐Chia Hsieh, Tsung-Hua Wu, Matthias Maiwald, Liat Hui Loo, Tanu Sagar, Rama Chaudhry, Larry K. Kociolek, Kami D Kies, Jill M. Mainella, Jessica Kapinos, Robin Patel, Nadia Rodríguez, David H. Lorenz, Matthew Blakiston
Abstract
On Nov 22, 2023, WHO released a statement regarding reported clusters of pneumonia in children in northern China.1 Concurrently, the results of our global prospective surveillance study of Mycoplasma pneumoniae (ESGMAC MAPS study) were published, revealing the re-emergence of M pneumoniae in Europe and Asia; however, our study did not include data from China.2 These observations indicated that the increase in the incidence of pneumonia in China could be due to the increased circulation of known pathogens such as M pneumoniae, which causes childhood pneumonia worldwide.