background: chest x-ray has an important role in the diagnosis of tuberculosis (tb). the aim of this study was to determine the radiological changes in patients with smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis.methods: in this study, 325 patients with smear positive pulmonary tb was enrolled. the affected lobe or lobes of the left or right lung were recorded. the types of involvement were categorized...

Administration of oxygen via a tube held close to the nose prevented hypoxemia during breastfeeding in 15 of 20 infants with bronchopneumonia.

One lung from 109 unselected hospital and 43 unselected non-hospital necropsies was studied using postmortem radiography with histological verification. Signs of acute bacterial infection, including bronchiolitis or bronchopneumonia, were present in 42.2% of the hospital necropsies and infection was the immediate cause of death in 8.3%. There was only one case of incipient bronchopneumonia amon...

A 21 year old young male, known asthmatic and chronic smoker presented with history of fever, cough with expectoration and exacerbation of breathlessness of 2 days duration. After admission he was treated with bronchodilators and antibiotics. After six hours of admission he developed severe retrosternal chest pain and respiratory distress. His BP was 110/80 mmHg, pulse rate >120/m, respiratory ...

Pasteurella multocida (septica) is frequently found in domestic animals such as cats and dogs, usually in the mouth or on the paw, and produces no disease. Infection of humans by this organism is uncommon and usually follows a cat-scratch or dog-bite, the lesion being a chronic pyogenic inflammation of the subcutaneous and adjoining structures. The following report is of an attack of bronchopne...

Kawasaki syndrome (KS), also known as Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute systemic vasculitis that predominantly affects pre-school aged children. It is characterized by fever, bilateral nonexudative conjunctivitis, erythema of the lips and oral mucosa, changes in the extremities, rash, and cervical lymphadenopathy, and irritation and inflammation of the mouth, lips, and throat. Serious complicat...

The majority of infants who develop infections of the lower respiratory tract respond satisfactorily to standard methods of treatment, with antibiotics, oxygen, humidity, and, when necessary, tube feeding (Simpson and Flenley, 1967; Disney et al., 1960; Heycock and Noble, 1962). A proportion, in our experience approximately 12%, fails to respond, and it is with this group that this paper is con...

Extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) strains carrying distinct virulence attributes are known to cause diseases in humans and animals and infect organs other than the gastrointestinal tract. A fatal case of bronchopneumonia in a 12-year-old female Quarterhorse was investigated. Following postmortem examination, E. coli, Enterococcus sp., and Klebsiella pneumonia were isolated fro...

" God cast down on them great tribulation, famine, and pestilence: the people perished." So Hesiod (c. 700 B.c.) described the association between famine and pestilence, and they have been firmly coupled in men's minds at least since that time. McCance (1951) has reviewed the historical association. Children with kwashiorkor or nutritional marasmus often have acute bacterial infections. This ha...

BACKGROUND Bronchopneumonia is a population limiting disease of bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis). The cause of this disease has been a subject of debate. Leukotoxin expressing Mannheimia haemolytica and Bibersteinia trehalosi produce acute pneumonia after experimental challenge but are infrequently isolated from animals in natural outbreaks. Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae, epidemiologically implicated...