A bacillus was found associated in pure culture with an extensive lobar bronchopneumonia in calves. It occurs in the exudate as a minute bacillus in small groups. In cultures it appears in three forms: as a bacillus, as a coccus-like endospore or arthrospore, and as a conglomerate Actinomyces-like flake or colony with peripheral clubs. The bacillar and coccoid forms occur on agar, the Actinomyc...

We study the temporal pattern of selected respiratory diseases and the influence of specific weather parameters on their morbidity in two eco-climatic zones in Nigeria for the period 19962006. Out of 2,056 and 2,647 cases of respiratory diseases (bronchial asthma, bronchopneumonia, lobar pneumonia, bronchiolitis, cardiac asthma, pulmonary tuberculosis, sinusitis, tonsillitis and upper respirato...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To describe the pulmonary findings at autopsy of blood and bone marrow transplant (BMT) recipients. DESIGN Retrospective. SETTING An academic medical center. PATIENTS Seventy-one deceased adult BMT recipients. INTERVENTIONS None. MEASUREMENTS Antemortem and postmortem pulmonary findings. RESULTS The transplants were allogeneic in 39 patients (55%), with a peripheral ...

A case of Candida tropicalis endophthalmitis following penetrating keratoplasty is presented. The donor was an alcoholic, who died of bronchopneumonia and pancreatitis. We presume the candida infection was transmitted by the donor because Candida tropicalis was cultured in life from the donor's throat swab and corresponding fungal elements were discovered post mortem in kidney sections of the d...

of amitriptyline is reported.The disease process was accompanied by noticeable loss of lung compliance, and a gross diffusion defect at alveolar level. It seems unlikely that the course was that of an aspiration or bronchopneumonia, and clinically and pathologically it resembled the changes seen in surfactant deficiency. It is suggested that amitriptyline in overdosage may interfere with the pr...