On 17 February 1997, a case of Legionnaire disease was reported to the Direction de la santé publique de Montréal-Centre following the death of an 87-year-old male patient residing in a long-term care facility (LTCF). An autopsy on 8 February indicated the cause of death as bronchopneumonia. A diagnosis of Legionnaire disease was confirmed following biopsy of a pulmonary tissue culture which re...

University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy, Košice, Slovak Republic (Received 1 March 2013) The aim of this study was to evaluate the serum proteins electrophoretic pattern and the concentrations of acute phase proteins in calves with chronic bronchopneumonia. Twenty-eight calves with clinical symptoms of disease were included into the evaluation. Blood serum was analyzed for total protein ...

Although Neisseria species other than N gonorrhoeae and N meningitidis normally comprise part of the commensal bacterial flora of the oropharynx, they may occasionally act as opportunistic pathogens. Infections in which these organisms have been implicated include cases of endocarditis, meningitis, septicaemia, otitis, bronchopneumonia and possibly genital tract disease. In this paper, the clin...

Results Most of the patients came from rural area (60%). 55% of them were female and 45% were male. We had 3 groups of acute pneumonia: lobar pneumonia (39%), interstitial pneumonia (47%) and bronchopneumonia (14%). More than half of the patients had bacterial pneumonia (70%). From these, 68% had unknown etiology. The most affected ranges were the age group 51-55 and 61-65. Most cases of acute ...

1. Oleate hemoglobin agar is a good selective culture medium for Bacillus influenzae. 2. Bacillus influenzae has been cultivated from the mouth of 93 per cent of cases of influenza and bronchopneumonia. 3. Bacillus influenzae was present at the time of this study in the mouths of 43 per cent of normal individuals. 4. The types of pneumococci found associated with the complicating bronchopneumon...

i n a survey of pneumonia due to mycoplasma 282 out of 12168 ovine and caprine lung condemnation were collected (2.32%). mycoplasma spp. has been isolated from pneumonic cases in 4 sheep and 2 goats. pcr studies were confirmed the genus of mycoplasma although attempting for identification of strains m. mycoides, m. capricolum/caprine pleuropneumonia and m. arginin were in failure. the lesions i...