Table 1.

Categorical variables age, gender, number of patients hospitalized, and mutation type of 188 pediatric patients with MS and MR M. pneumoniae pneumonia

Variable	MS patients	MR patients	P value
No. of patients	38	150
Mean age (range), yr	8.4 (1–15)	8.0 (0–15)	0.670
No. (%) of patients:
<1 yr old	2 (5.3)	7 (4.7)	0.786
2–5 yr old	11 (28.9)	42 (28.0)	0.908
6–7 yr old	7 (18.4)	23 (15.3)	0.643
8 yr old	18 (47.4)	78 (52.0)	0.610
No. of males/females	22/16	84/66	0.833
No. (%) hospitalized	0	15 (10.0)	0.218
No. (%) with point mutation in domain V of 23S rRNA
A2063G		134 (89.4)
A2063T		8 (5.3)
A2063C		2 (1.3)
A2064G		6 (4.0)