Talk:Mycoplasma pneumonia

Compare to Chlamydophila pneumoniae article

This bacterium is, in importance, in the same class as Chlamydophila pneumoniae, as the two most common causes of atypical pneumonia. And yet, the Wikipedia entry for Chlamydophila pneumoniae has a much higher quality than the one for Mycoplasma pneumonia. I would suggest using the Chlamydophila pneumoniae article as a model.

Is this even a sentence?

Taken from special:permalink/1020846175#Diagnosis

M. pneumoniae infections can be differentiated from other types of pneumonia by the relatively slow progression of symptoms. A positive blood test for cold-hemagglutinins in 50–70% of patients after 10 days of infection (cold-hemagglutinin-test should be used with caution or not at all, since 50% of the tests are false-positive), lack of bacteria in a Gram-stained sputum sample, and a lack of growth on blood agar.

Perhaps this is better:

M. pneumoniae infections can be differentiated from other types of pneumonia by the relatively slow progression of symptoms. Other indicators are:

• A positive blood test for cold-hemagglutinins in 50–70% of patients after 10 days of infection (cold-hemagglutinin-test should be used with caution or not at all, since 50% of the tests are false-positive)
• A lack of bacteria in a Gram-stained sputum sample
• A lack of growth on blood agar

I only do math and physics articles, and lack the expertise to confidently insert this correction myself.--Guy vandegrift (talk) 21:32, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Epidemiology ENPH 450

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