Acute-Phase Atypical Pneumonia Serologic Profiles

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 ...

Epidemic of Acute Respiratory Disease Associated with Atypical Pneumonia.

Recently, the concept has developed that atypical pneumonia is merely an incident in what is usually a mild epidemic disease of the respiratory tract (1 to 6). A group of workers (3) summarize this idea: "There is thus no sharp dividing line, other than roentgen evidence . . . to differentiate cases of atypical pneumonia from cases of acute bronchitis resembling atypical pneumonia and from case...

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...

Atypical Pneumonia and Psittacosis.