PNEUMONIA

Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia, bacterial pneumonia and viral pneumonia.

Pneumonia

Pneumonia

Supplementing the earlier published The Biology of Pneumococcus by White, this volume makes available data on every conceivable phase of pneumococcus lobar pneumonia. It is, of course, an outgrowth of the years of work carried out in the Massachusetts Pneumonia Study, the experience there gained being supplemented by an exhaustive critical examination of the literature (the bibliography present...

Pneumonia.

Introduction Pneumonia is commonly encountered by emergency department and primary care clinicians. Childhood pneumonia remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries, whereas mortality rates in the developed world have decreased secondary to new vaccines, antimicrobials, and advances in diagnostic and monitoring techniques. (1) This review focuses on pneumonia i...

Nosocomial pneumonia, including ventilator-associated pneumonia.

Patients with nosocomial pneumonia have evidence of immunosuppression. The most obvious defect in immunity is the loss of mechanical barriers with an endotracheal tube. Only a third of colonized patients on ventilators develop pneumonia, however, suggesting that altered immunity is more extensive. This subgroup of patients tends to get multiple synchronous and sequential infections. The exact m...