European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Study Group for Mycoplasma and Chlamydia Infections (ESGMAC), and the ESGMAC Mycoplasma pneumoniae Surveillance (MAPS) study group:
1 Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zurich CH-8032, Switzerland. Electronic address: patrick.meyersauteur@kispi.uzh.ch.
2 Microbiology and Infection Research Group, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, UK.
3 Bacteriology Department, Bordeaux University Hospital, National Reference Center for Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infections, Bordeaux, France.
4 Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland.
5 Bacteriology Laboratory, Division of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Diagnostics, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland.
6 Laboratories, Clinique de La Source, Lausanne, Switzerland.
7 Institute of Microbiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
8 Department of Pediatrics, Fribourg Hospital and University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
9 Department of Pediatrics, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland.
10 Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Lucerne Children's Hospital, Lucerne Cantonal Hospital, Switzerland.
11 Institute of Pediatrics of Southern Switzerland, EOC, Bellinzona, Switzerland.
12 Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Bellinzona, Switzerland.
13 Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
14 Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
15 Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland, St Gallen, Switzerland.
16 Center for Laboratory Medicine, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
17 Cantonal Hospital Aarau, Switzerland.
18 Department of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, University of Basel Children's Hospital (UKBB), Switzerland.
19 Clinical Bacteriology and Mycology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
20 Institute for Hygiene and Public Health, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
21 Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany.
22 Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
23 Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Heinrich-Heine University Hospital, Düsseldorf, Germany.
24 Belgian Sentinel Network of Laboratories (SNL), coordinated by the national public health institute Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.
25 Department of Microbiology, Belgian National Reference Centre for Respiratory Pathogens, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium.
26 Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
27 Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
28 Respiratory and Vaccine Preventable Bacteria Reference Unit (RVPBRU), UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), London, United Kingdom.
29 Public Health Wales, Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
30 Department of Bacteria, Parasites and Fungi, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark.
31 Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark.
32 Center for Research and Development, Uppsala University/Region Gävleborg, Gävle, Sweden.
33 Department of Clinical Microbiology, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland, and Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
34 Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
35 New Children's Hospital, Pediatric Research Center, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
36 Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Children's Clinic, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.
37 Department of Medical Microbiology, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.
38 Department of Woman and Child Health and Public Health, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, Rome, Italy.
39 Emergency Service and Infectiology Unit, Pediatric Hospital, Coimbra Hospital and University Center, Coimbra, Portugal.
40 Department of Pediatrics, Centro Hospitalar Tondela-Viseu, Viseu, Portugal.
41 Department of Microbiology & Serology, P. & A. Kyriakou Children's Hospital, Athens, Greece.
43 Collaborative Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes Research (CLEO), Athens, Greece.
44 Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
45 Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
46 Department of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan.
47 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Mitaka City, Tokyo, Japan.
48 Department of Bacteriology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
49 Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Children's Hospital, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
50 Department of Pediatrics, Show Chwan Memorial Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan.
51 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore; Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore; Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
52 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore; Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore.
53 Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
54 Department of Microbiology, NIMS & R, NIMS University, Jaipur, India.
55 Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
56 Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
57 Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA; Division of Public Health, Infectious Diseases, and Occupational Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
58 Center for Research, Diagnosis and Reference, Institute of Tropical Medicine "Pedro Kourí", Havana, Cuba.
59 Division of Microbiology, SydPath St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
60 LabPlus, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.