1. Bacterial Pneumonia and Atypical Pneumonia

Atypical Pneumonia and Psittacosis.

Community acquired acute bacterial and atypical pneumonia in Saudi Arabia.

BACKGROUND Rational treatment of pneumonia requires knowledge of the likely aetiological diagnosis in any community. Little is known about the pattern and outcome of pneumonia in Saudi Arabia. METHODS A total of 567 pneumonic episodes in adult patients from the Al-Qassim area were reviewed retrospectively. RESULTS Patients had a mean age of 42.7 years, with 103 patients (18%) aged 13 to 20 ...

Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia, bacterial pneumonia and viral pneumonia.

Primary Atypical Pneumonia

Primary atypical pneumonia.

Many recent communications to the medical literature on primary atypical pneumonia have emphasized the difficulty of differentiating that disease from other pneumonic consolidations from the roentgenogram I t is generally recognized that the various pulmonary inflammations do, on x-ray examination, have a tendency to group types: there are so-called "typical" pictures for pneumococcal lobar con...