Infective causes
Infective causes include:
- bacterial
- lobar: pneumococcal, Staph. aureus, legionella, Friedlander's
- lobular (if bilateral is 'bronchopneumonia'): occurs in babies or in the elderly or debilitated patients eg Haemophilus, streptococci
- generalized bacterial infections eg typhoid fever, plague, brucellosis
- viral and chlamydial
- respiratory syncytial
- influenza (usually secondary bacterial infection)
- mumps (usually secondary bacterial infection)
- cytomegalovirus
- ornithosis
- upper respiratory tract viruses - rhinovirus, adenovirus, parainfluenza
- rickettsial
- Q fever
- typhus
- protozoa and parasites
- pneumocystis carinii
- toxoplasma
- amoebae
- yeasts and fungi
- candida
- histoplasma
- mycoplasma pnemoniae
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