TABLE 1.

Molecular typing results of P1 typing and MLVA for 578 M. pneumoniae samples isolated between 1996 and 2017 in Sweden

Yr	No. of samples	P1 type or varianta						MLVA
		T1	T2	V2a	V2b	V2c	V2eb	3,5,6,2	3,6,6,2	4,5,7,2	Other
1996	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
1998	9	3	6	0	0	0	0	0	6	3	0
2001	9	3	6	0	0	0	0	0	6	2	1
2002	8	5	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	2
2004	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
2005	20	3	7	3	1	6	0	13	4	2	1
2006	35	21	3	3	4	4	0	7	7	20	1
2007	26	13	2	6	2	3	0	9	3	11	3
2008	8	5	0	3	0	0	0	3	0	5	0
2009	11	5	0	6	0	0	0	6	0	5	0
2010	29	7	5	7	0	10	0	17	5	4	3
2011	135	35	15	27	6	52	0	84	15	35	1
2012	178	89	9	15	10	55	0	73	16	82	7
2013	47	17	4	0	5	21	0	20	9	13	5
2016	28	15	1	0	0	11	1	11	2	14	1
2017	32	21	0	1	0	2	8	2	9	15	6
Total	578	244	62	71	28	164	9	245	86	216	31

^aT, type; V, variant.

^bV2e is a new variant detected in this study.