Is Mycoplasma pneumoniae a precipitating factor in acute severe asthma in children?
Leaver, R.; Weinberg, E.G.
South African Medical Journal 68(2): 78-79
1985
ISSN/ISBN: 0256-9574 PMID: 4012507 Document Number: 266989
A randomized prospective trial in 39 children with acute severe asthma admitted to the emergency ward of the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and a matched comparative group showed that Mycoplasma pneumoniae was not a precipitating factor.
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