Doctors are seeing a spike in Mycoplasma pneumoniae. What is it?
Doctors in central Pennsylvania are seeing a rise in walking or atypical pneumonia cases caused by mycoplasma pneumoniae, especially in young children.
"One of the reasons this has been such a concern is because it doesn't respond to typical antibiotic therapies for pneumonias and can also look a lot like viral pneumonias, which are the most common cause of pneumonia in children," said Dr. Amy Dooley, pediatric pulmonologist at Penn State Health Children's Hospital.
The CDC says these infections can occur at any age, most often occur among children ages 5–17 and young adults.
Dr. Dooley says it's not a condition healthcare professionals typically see in preschool-aged children, but now children ages 2-4 are making up the largest proportional rise in cases.
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