Contagious: Mycoplasma pneumoniae


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About contagion: Contagion and contagiousness refers to how easily the spread of Mycoplasma pneumoniae is possible from one person to another. Other words for contagion include "infection", "infectiousness", "transmission" or "transmissability". Contagiousness has nothing to do with genetics or inheriting diseases from parents. For an overview of contagion, see Introduction to Contagion.

Contagion summary: Person-to-person transmission by contact with respiratory secretions.1

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1. excerpt from Mycoplasma pneumoniae: DBMD

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