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Types of pneumoniaCommunity-acquiredType of pneumoniaCases of pneumoniaSymptomsLungShortness of breAntibioticsPneumocystisBacteriaInfectionDiagnosis of pneumoniaInfectionsFungalClinicalInfluenzaDevelop pneumoniaLegionellaHistoplasmosisSacsChronicSputumCoughVirusesTreatment for pneumoniaInfectiousAtypical pneumoniaMycoplasma pneumoniaSevereSwarm intelligenceCause of pneumoniaRisk for pneumoniaHospital-acquiredHealthcare-associateNosocomialComplicationsMildChlamydiaBronchitisPrevent pneumoniaPredict pneumoniaAspiration pneumoniaAntibioticRadiologistsAffectsSquamous cell carcSeverityCommon2021PneumococcalBronchiolitisPneumoniaeRadiographicSignsImmune system
Types of pneumonia7
Community-acquired7
  • M pneumoniae is one of the most common causes of community-acquired pneumonia in otherwise healthy patients younger than 40 years. (medscape.com)
  • Isozumi R, Yoshimine H, Morozumi M, Ubukata K, Ariyoshi K. Adult community-acquired pneumonia caused by macrolide resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae. (medscape.com)
  • Wang K, Gill P, Perera R, Thomson A, Mant D, Harnden A. Clinical symptoms and signs for the diagnosis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in children and adolescents with community-acquired pneumonia. (medscape.com)
  • Pneumonia that presents sooner should be regarded as community- acquired pneumonia. (medscape.com)
  • Based on where you caught your pneumonia, your doctor will categorize it as health care-associated pneumonia (HCAP) or community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). (healthpartners.com)
  • While a new study examining the best treatment setting for patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) will probably not change your day-to-day practice, it highlights some interesting opportunities for hospitalists to take the lead on streamlining throughput for a potentially large group of inpatients. (todayshospitalist.com)
  • In an active population-based surveillance for community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization in five hospitals in Chicago and Nashville from January 2010 through June 2012, 2259 patients were identified who had radiographic evidence of pneumonia and specimens that could be tested for the responsible pathogen. (wikipedia.org)
Type of pneumonia6
Cases of pneumonia5
Symptoms21
  • The signs and symptoms of pneumonia vary from mild to severe depending on your age, your health, and the type of germ that is causing the infection. (healthandsymptoms.com)
  • What are the symptoms of pneumonia? (medlineplus.gov)
  • During the early stages of chlamydia pneumonia, you may appear asymptomatic (showing no signs or symptoms). (healthmatch.io)
  • If you have mild chlamydia pneumonia, these symptoms last between 1-4 weeks. (healthmatch.io)
  • If you have symptoms of chlamydia pneumonia, you should seek treatment since this bacteria can play a role in the development of other medical conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, arthritis, and coronary artery disease. (healthmatch.io)
  • Plus, what are the symptoms of pneumonia and how do you know if you have it? (healthpartners.com)
  • Symptoms of pneumonia can range from mildly uncomfortable to severe, sometimes requiring hospitalization. (healthpartners.com)
  • Symptoms of COVID-19 pneumonia are similar to those of other types of viral pneumonia, but pneumonia caused by COVID-19 is often serious and can worsen rapidly. (healthpartners.com)
  • Walking pneumonia, also known as atypical or mycoplasma pneumonia, is a form of pneumonia known for its comparatively minor symptoms. (healthpartners.com)
  • This went on for another two months but the only symptoms I had were drowsiness, high heart rate, yellow nails, and green mucus, none of these symptoms made me think I had pneumonia because I didn't have a fever or a cold or the flu. (reanfoundation.org)
  • Mycoplasma pneumonia has somewhat different symptoms. (uhhospitals.org)
  • I think the important thing with respect to clinical signs and symptoms of pneumonia is that there's no single sign or symptom that's highly accurate for the diagnosis of pneumonia. (medscape.com)
  • Most children present with a variety of signs and symptoms, but I think you can't really hang your hat on a single sign or symptom to predict pneumonia. (medscape.com)
  • Additionally, as much as possible, keep your child away from anyone with symptoms of pneumonia, viruses or a respiratory infection. (hiltonheadregional.com)
  • Although an intrapulmonary sequestration is usually diagnosed later in childhood or adolescence, symptoms may begin early in childhood with multiple episodes of pneumonia. (medscape.com)
  • Based on his symptoms and a clinical workup, he was diagnosed with adult-onset Stills disease, a rare type of inflammatory arthritis typically associated with fevers, rash, and joint pain. (cdc.gov)
  • Within a few days (to as long a week) after these symptoms begin, you will start to notice symptoms of pneumonia. (carenow.com)
  • The signs and symptoms of pneumonia can vary in severity, depending on the overall health of the person affected. (carenow.com)
  • It can be difficult to identify pneumonia in infants as they often exhibit no symptoms. (carenow.com)
  • Contact your provider if you have a weakened immune system and you have symptoms of pneumonia. (medlineplus.gov)
  • While the symptoms mimic bacterial or viral pneumonia, you need to be aware of how they affect your body. (harcourthealth.com)
Lung16
  • Mycoplasma pneumonia-associated acute hepatitis in an adult patient without lung infection. (medscape.com)
  • When he analyzed the audio with a computer algorithm he developed with his team, he found that pneumonia coughs and non-pneumonia coughs do sound different: In pneumonia, tiny air sacs in the lung are filled with fluids, and that causes certain changes to your coughing. (grandchallenges.org)
  • Pneumonia is defined as "new lung infiltrates plus clinical evidence that the infiltrate is of an infectious origin, which include the new onset of fever, purulent sputum, leukocytosis, and decline in oxygenation. (medscape.com)
  • Because aerobic gram-negative bacilli (eg, Pseudomonas aeruginosa) are the major pathogens associated with HAP, the pathophysiology of nosocomial pneumonia relates to the destructive effect on lung tissue. (medscape.com)
  • Pneumonia is a common lung infection that causes inflammation in the air sacs of one or both of your lungs. (healthpartners.com)
  • After 3 months of this, I finally went to the hospital I got my blood tested urine test and a chest x-ray was diagnosed with pneumonia in my left lung. (reanfoundation.org)
  • At least not after a group of doctors from the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in Scotland reported for the first time a case of "feathered pneumonia", a lung inflammation caused by the inhalation of dust from the feathers that stuff blankets and pillows. (somethinginthewater.com.au)
  • Pneumonia is a respiratory condition characterized by lung parenchymal inflammation caused by viral, bacterial, or fungal invasion. (rnspeak.com)
  • Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli. (wikipedia.org)
  • Bloody sputum (known as hemoptysis) may also occur with tuberculosis, Gram-negative pneumonia, lung abscesses and more commonly acute bronchitis. (wikipedia.org)
  • So, how much does it matter which type of lung cancer you're diagnosed with? (mdanderson.org)
  • Squamous cell carcinoma of the lungs is a bit less common than adenocarcinoma, but it still makes up roughly one-third of all lung cancer diagnoses. (mdanderson.org)
  • That's why roughly 80% of all lung cancer diagnoses are made when the disease has advanced to either stage III or IV. (mdanderson.org)
  • Some people might need treatment in a hospital if the pneumonia causes a lasting high fever or breathing problems, or if they need oxygen, are vomiting and can't take the medicine, or have a lung infection that may have spread to the bloodstream. (kidshealth.org)
  • Pneumonia is a lung infection. (medlineplus.gov)
  • But, chemical pneumonia is caused by inflammation of lung tissue from toxins or poisons. (harcourthealth.com)
Shortness of bre4
  • Shortness of breath after diagnosed with pneumonia. (reanfoundation.org)
  • I got pneumonia and even though it's gone I still experience shortness of breath. (reanfoundation.org)
  • Another study surveyed 500 pneumonia patients age 50 and older and found that tiredness, weakness, and shortness of breath lasted more than three weeks, on average. (reanfoundation.org)
  • People with infectious pneumonia often have a productive cough, fever accompanied by shaking chills, shortness of breath, sharp or stabbing chest pain during deep breaths, and an increased rate of breathing. (wikipedia.org)
Antibiotics10
Pneumocystis3
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) algorithm for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in seriously ill HIV-infected patients recommends that treatment for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) should be considered without giving clear guidance on selecting patients for empiric PJP therapy. (scielo.org.za)
  • Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) is a common opportunistic infection in HIV-infected patients. (scielo.org.za)
  • The incidence of these complications has been reduced by prophylaxis against Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, preemptive therapy in patients at high risk for cytomegalovirus (CMV) reactivation, and, more recently, screening for serum CMV antigen. (nih.gov)
Bacteria10
  • It's caused by breathing in bacteria, and it's easier to catch bacterial pneumonia after having a cold or the flu because your immune system is weaker from being sick. (healthpartners.com)
  • Pneumonia is an infection of one or both of the lungs caused by bacteria, viruses, or fungi. (uhhospitals.org)
  • Pneumonia is usually caused by infection with viruses or bacteria, and less commonly by other microorganisms. (wikipedia.org)
  • Pneumonia is due to infections caused primarily by bacteria or viruses and less commonly by fungi and parasites. (wikipedia.org)
  • If you inhale bacteria into your lungs from saliva, food or drink, aspiration pneumonia can occur. (carenow.com)
  • The most common cause of pneumonia is a bacteria called Streptococcus pneumoniae . (carenow.com)
  • The illness comes on more gradually and might be less severe than pneumonia that's caused by bacteria. (kidshealth.org)
  • The antibiotic they use depends on the type of bacteria thought to have caused the pneumonia. (kidshealth.org)
  • He explained how the pandemic is accelerating the application of artificial intelligence to a broad variety of challenges in health care, including a very current and remarkable one: A sophisticated neural network, using computed tomography (CT) data, could soon be capable of distinguishing between the pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, and that precipitated by some other cause, such as bacteria or an intense allergic reaction. (ieee.org)
  • Bacteria from the stomach or mouth may also cause bacterial pneumonia on top of this chemical trigger. (harcourthealth.com)
Infection19
  • An acute infection of the respiratory tract with atypical pneumonia: a disease entity probably caused by a filtrable virus. (medscape.com)
  • For children, diagnosing a viral cause of respiratory infection may limit the use of antimicrobial therapy, reassure the parents, and avoid further transmission to the community or even nosocomial infection ( 10 , 11 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Pneumonia is an infection in one or both of your lungs. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP), or nosocomial pneumonia, is a lower respiratory infection that was not incubating at the time of hospital admission and that presents clinically 2 or more days after hospitalization. (medscape.com)
  • Pneumonia is a respiratory tract infection that typically affects the lungs (one or both). (healthmatch.io)
  • Examine The X-ray Of A Patient Diagnosed With Pneumonia Due To Infection With Mucor. (mycoursebay.com)
  • Describe the pathophysiologic progression of the infection into pneumonia and at least two medical/nursing interventions that would be helpful in treating the patient. (mycoursebay.com)
  • Pneumonia caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae may occur in association with swelling of the lymph nodes in the neck, joint pain, or a middle ear infection. (wikipedia.org)
  • Pneumonia is a potentially dangerous condition that occurs when the airspaces in the lungs become inflamed as a result of an infection. (carenow.com)
  • If you're showing signs of pneumonia, your provider will need to perform a routine physical exam to check for infection. (carenow.com)
  • Pneumonia (pronounced: (nu-MOH-nyuh) is an infection of the lungs. (kidshealth.org)
  • But pneumonia is a bit worse because the infection goes down into the lungs. (kidshealth.org)
  • Double pneumonia just means that the infection is in both lungs. (kidshealth.org)
  • Nevertheless, respiratory infection presenting purulent sputum can exacerbate asthma in children previously diagnosed with asthma. (cdc.gov)
  • This article discusses pneumonia that occurs in a person who has a hard time fighting off infection because of problems with the immune system. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): During the care of a patient diagnosed with a C. diff infection, following infection-control policies, healthcare and environmental service professionals are to wear PPE to minimize exposure to serious workplace illnesses (acute care, long-term care, and home care environments). (cdc.gov)
  • Mixed dust pneumoconiosis was diagnosed, and it was thought that an associated Aspergillus infection may have complicated therapy. (cdc.gov)
  • Pneumonia is an infection of the small air sacs of the lungs (alveoli) and the tissues around them. (msdmanuals.com)
  • a viral infection) is often complicated by bacterial pneumonia. (msdmanuals.com)
Diagnosis of pneumonia5
  • While diagnosis of pneumonia is based on clinical presentation and infiltrate seen on chest x-ray, which of the following is/are recommended if the chest x-ray does not reveal an infiltrate? (mdedge.com)
  • Ineffective airway clearance related to presence of inflammation along the bronchial walls secondary to diagnosis of pneumonia as evidenced by increased in respiratory effort, expiratory wheezing, deep shallow respirations, flaring of the nostrils and pain upon respirations. (rnspeak.com)
  • We'll discuss both clinical and radiographic approaches to the diagnosis of pneumonia in children. (medscape.com)
  • Using small groups of radiologists, the swarm-based technology was applied to the diagnosis of pneumonia on chest radiographs and compared against human experts alone, as well as two state-of-the-art deep learning AI models. (nature.com)
  • Diagnosis of pneumonia is predominantly a In reality, very little is known regarding clinical diagnosis. (who.int)
Infections10
  • Bacterial , viral , and fungal infections can cause pneumonia. (medlineplus.gov)
  • There are other less common pneumonias that may be caused by other infections including fungi. (uhhospitals.org)
  • This is largely because the clinical presentation of pneumonia in children overlaps with so many other common respiratory conditions, such as asthma , bronchiolitis , and viral upper respiratory infections . (medscape.com)
  • The clinical course included multiple hospital admissions for pneumonia and urinary tract infections. (cdc.gov)
  • It's common for a person with pneumonia to start out with something milder like a cough or sore throat - which also can happen in other infections. (kidshealth.org)
  • In 1952, Colonel Ogden Bruton noted the absence of immunoglobulins (Ig) in a boy with a history of pneumonia and other bacterial sinopulmonary infections. (medscape.com)
  • As Bruton originally described, XLA manifests as pneumonia and other bacterial sinopulmonary infections in 80% of cases. (medscape.com)
  • Thus, XLA is most likely to be diagnosed when unusually severe or recurrent sinopulmonary infections occur in a male infant younger than 1 year. (medscape.com)
  • Pneumonia is the most common cause of death among infections that develop while people are hospitalized and is the most common overall cause of death in medically underserved countries. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Pneumonia is also one of the most common serious infections in children and infants. (msdmanuals.com)
Fungal3
  • Fungal pneumonia is more common in people who have chronic health problems or weakened immune systems . (medlineplus.gov)
  • There are three main types of infectious agents that can lead to pneumonia: bacterial, viral and fungal. (carenow.com)
  • Bacterial and viral pneumonias are much more common than mycobacterial, fungal, or parasitic pneumonias. (msdmanuals.com)
Clinical8
  • Detecting infectious diseases and other diagnoses among travelers can serve as sentinel surveillance for new or emerging pathogens and provide information to improve case identification, clinical management, and public health prevention and response. (cdc.gov)
  • GeoSentinel comprises 71 sites in 29 countries where clinicians diagnose illnesses and collect demographic, clinical, and travel-related information about diseases and illnesses acquired during travel using a standardized report form. (cdc.gov)
  • Have you considered clinical trials for Pneumonia? (healthmatch.io)
  • We make it easy for you to participate in a clinical trial for Pneumonia, and get access to the latest treatments not yet widely available - and be a part of finding a cure. (healthmatch.io)
  • What do you think are the best clinical features to predict the presence of a radiographic pneumonia for something that you can see on a chest radiograph? (medscape.com)
  • This casuistic describes a case of COVID-19 associated pneumonia presenting with typical clinical features, laboratory and radiological findings. (nih.gov)
  • ABSTRACT To compare clinical (non-invasive) diagnosis with bronchoscopic (invasive) diagnosis, a total of 50 patients with chronic pneumonia (sputum smear-negative for tuberculosis) were examined. (who.int)
  • The cause of non-resolving pneumonias the primary or clinical diagnosis with final may be non-infectious or infectious and diagnosis done by FOB and to find out how usually invasive diagnostic techniques are well matched they were. (who.int)
Influenza4
  • The incubation of mycoplasmal pneumonia tends to be smoldering and averages a period of 2-3 weeks, in contrast to that of influenza and other viral pneumonias (generally average a few days). (medscape.com)
  • Viruses that can cause pneumonia include the common cold , influenza and COVID-19 , which can be very serious. (healthpartners.com)
  • Pneumonia is often caused by viruses, such as the influenza virus (flu) and adenovirus . (kidshealth.org)
  • Ask your provider if you should receive the influenza (flu), pneumococcal (pneumonia), and COVID-19 vaccines. (medlineplus.gov)
Develop pneumonia3
Legionella1
Histoplasmosis1
  • I'd like to welcome you to today's COCA Call, Algorithms for Diagnosing the Endemic Mycoses, Blastomycosis, Coccidioidomycosis, and Histoplasmosis. (cdc.gov)
Sacs2
  • Pneumonia can develop as a complication of COVID-19 when those air sacs become infected and fill up with fluid and mucus, causing chest pain, coughing and difficulty breathing. (healthpartners.com)
  • When kids have pneumonia, their small sacs in the lungs fill up with pus and liquid, limiting oxygen intake and making it painful for them to breathe. (hiltonheadregional.com)
Chronic5
  • The method allows recognition of V/P pattern typical for PE, the sign of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pneumonia, left heart failure (LHF), chronic PE, and suspicion of other parenchymal processes like tumors. (lu.se)
  • Risk factors for pneumonia include cystic fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), sickle cell disease, asthma, diabetes, heart failure, a history of smoking, a poor ability to cough (such as following a stroke), and a weak immune system. (wikipedia.org)
  • Because tuberculosis is over-diagnosed in endemic areas, bronchoscopy is strongly recommended for all cases of chronic pneumonia. (who.int)
  • In some conditions there is a long time of our infectious diseases clinic with acute between the initial and final diagnosis of presentation of pneumonia failed to respond chronic pneumonia, which usually occurs to treatment. (who.int)
  • Often, pneumonia is the final illness that causes death in people who have other serious, chronic diseases. (msdmanuals.com)
Sputum3
  • After a third attempt for a PCR-analysis of a deep oral swab-sample was negative, analysis of a sputum was performed which finally confirmed the diagnosis of COVID-19 associated pneumonia. (nih.gov)
  • Nach Asservierung und PCR-Analyse von Sputum konnte schließlich der Nachweis von SARS-CoV-2 erbracht und die Diagnose einer COVID-19-assoziierten Pneumonie gesichert werden. (nih.gov)
  • Pneumonia caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae is associated with rusty colored sputum. (wikipedia.org)
Cough6
  • even highly trained specialists looking at X-ray images can disagree about whether it's pneumonia or something else that's making a patient cough. (grandchallenges.org)
  • For community healthcare workers in poor countries who lack advanced training and expensive equipment, accurately diagnosing pneumonia can be impossible - but it's one of the common reasons kids come to them with a cough. (grandchallenges.org)
  • In fact, the World Health Organization guidelines suggest that if children come in complaining of a cough and are taking more than a certain number of breaths a minute, healthcare workers should just go ahead and treat them for pneumonia. (grandchallenges.org)
  • When he learned about the challenges diagnosing pneumonia presented, he wondered: could a computer tell the difference between a pneumonia cough and other kinds of coughs? (grandchallenges.org)
  • Dr. Lisa Bardack, Clinton's personal doctor since 2001, released a statement through the Clinton campaign which said the former secretary of state had been diagnosed with pneumonia during a follow-up examination regarding her prolonged cough. (blogspot.com)
  • A person with pneumonia may have trouble breathing and have a cough and fever. (kidshealth.org)
Viruses3
  • The main drawback lies in the cost of diagnosing respiratory viruses, but costs may go down in the future. (cdc.gov)
  • Viruses that infect the respiratory tract may cause pneumonia. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Other viruses, such as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and human metapneumovirus , are common causes of pneumonia in young kids and babies. (kidshealth.org)
Treatment for pneumonia1
Infectious1
  • Pneumonia is the leading infectious cause of death for children under five years of age in Africa and south Asia, according to the World Health Organization. (phasales.com)
Atypical pneumonia2
  • Eaton MD, Meiklejohn G, VanHerick W. Studies on the etiology of primary atypical pneumonia: a filterable agent transmissible to cotton rats, hamsters, and chick embryos. (medscape.com)
  • It's called an atypical pneumonia. (uhhospitals.org)
Mycoplasma pneumonia1
Severe5
Swarm intelligence1
  • In a study presented on Monday at the SIIM Conference on Machine Intelligence in Medical Imaging in San Francisco, Stanford University doctors showed that eight radiologists interacting through Unanimous AI 's "swarm intelligence" technology were better at diagnosing pneumonia from chest X-rays than individual doctors or a machine-learning program alone. (unanimous.ai)
Cause of pneumonia2
Risk for pneumonia2
Hospital-acquired1
  • The development of hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) represents an imbalance between normal host defenses and the ability of microorganisms to colonize and then invade the lower respiratory tract. (medscape.com)
Healthcare-associate1
  • The disease may be classified by where it was acquired, such as community- or hospital-acquired or healthcare-associated pneumonia. (wikipedia.org)
Nosocomial3
  • VAP refers to nosocomial pneumonia that develops among patients on ventilators. (medscape.com)
  • Typical chest radiograph of a patient with nosocomial pneumonia. (medscape.com)
  • [ 9 ] Alternatively, other non-necrotizing gram-negative bacilli (eg, Serratia marcescens) may be responsible for nosocomial pneumonia. (medscape.com)
Complications2
  • Complications from the COVID-19 virus can include pneumonia. (healthpartners.com)
  • Prioritization of these problems is, therefore, a must for the nurse to undertake, especially since several of these problems can bring about serious complications if they are not addressed as soon as they were diagnosed. (rnspeak.com)
Mild4
Chlamydia2
  • Since chlamydia pneumonia is similar to a cold or flu, it can sometimes go undiagnosed. (healthmatch.io)
  • Azithromycin is a standard antibiotic treatment for chlamydia pneumonia (500mg as a loading dose on day one and 250mg maintenance dose for four days more). (healthmatch.io)
Bronchitis1
Prevent pneumonia2
Predict pneumonia1
Aspiration pneumonia4
  • Aspiration pneumonia results from aspiration of colonized upper respiratory tract secretions. (medscape.com)
  • Aspiration pneumonia is caused by accidentally inhaling liquids or solids - food, drink, vomit or saliva - into your lungs instead of swallowing or expelling them. (healthpartners.com)
  • Another classification is aspiration pneumonia, where the inflammation is caused by regurgitation or inhalation of substances from the gastrointestinal tract into the lungs. (rnspeak.com)
  • Aspiration pneumonia is another kind of chemical pneumonia. (harcourthealth.com)
Antibiotic2
Radiologists1
Affects3
Squamous cell carc2
  • How is squamous cell carcinoma usually diagnosed? (mdanderson.org)
  • Subsequently, Mr A was diagnosed with T3N1 squamous cell carcinoma of the left upper lobe. (hdc.org.nz)
Severity1
  • Most hospitalists are already aware of the prognostic tool used in the study, the pneumonia severity index (PSI), also known as the PORT or Fine score. (todayshospitalist.com)
Common5
  • Mycoplasmal pneumonia is most common in the first two decades of life and is rare in children younger than 5 years, and large outbreaks of mycoplasmal pneumonia tend to occur in the late summer and fall, particularly in closed populations, such as in military and prison populations. (medscape.com)
  • Below are examples of two (2) most common health problems seen among patients with pneumonia. (rnspeak.com)
  • Pneumonia is one of the most common conditions that affect children below five years old. (hiltonheadregional.com)
  • Recently completed molecular studies of poliovirus isolates suggest that viral replication of vaccine-related polioviruses may have persisted for as long as 7 years in a patient with vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP) in whom common variable immunodeficiency syndrome (CVID) previously had been diagnosed. (cdc.gov)
  • It's common for pneumonia to affect both lungs, so don't worry if your doctor says this is what you have - it doesn't mean you're twice as sick. (kidshealth.org)
20211
  • During 2012-2021, data were collected by all GeoSentinel sites on approximately 200,000 patients who had approximately 244,000 confirmed or probable travel-related diagnoses. (cdc.gov)
Pneumococcal2
  • Noteworthy is that LD represented almost as many cases as documented bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia," the researchers wrote in their discussion. (medscape.com)
  • Cite this: Pneumococcal Pneumonia Outcomes Worse Than Legionnaires Disease - Medscape - Mar 30, 2022. (medscape.com)
Bronchiolitis1
Pneumoniae1
  • In a retrospective case companion study published in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences , the researchers reviewed data from 51 adults with LD and 55 with bacteremic S. pneumoniae pneumonia (SP) who were hospitalized at a single center between 2013 and 2018. (medscape.com)
Radiographic1
Signs1
Immune system1
  • How your body reacts greatly depends on your age, your overall health, the strength of your immune system and the type of germ that caused your pneumonia. (healthpartners.com)