eMedicine - Pneumonia Resource Center


		• Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Thoracic Society consensus guidelines on the management of community-acquired pneumonia in adults. • Evidence-based care guideline for community acquired pneumonia in children 60 days through 17 years of age. • Community-acquired pneumonia in adults. • Use of antibiotics in adults. • Guideline for the diagnosis and management of nursing home acquired pneumonia (NHAP), Mar 2007 • Guideline for the diagnosis and management of community acquired pneumonia : pediatric, 2006 • Guideline for the diagnosis and management of community acquired pneumonia : adult, 2006 • Diagnosis and treatment of respiratory illness in children and adults.


		• Legionnaires Disease • Mycoplasma Infections • Pneumonia, Bacterial • Pneumonia, Community-Acquired • Pneumonia, Mycoplasma • View All Pneumonia Articles


		• Rarely, severe pneumococcal infection may be associated with necrotizing pneumonia. • Early right middle lobe pneumonia. • Empyema caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae. Anteroposterior film. • Lobar consolidation with pneumococcal pneumonia. Lateral film. • Sputum Gram stain from a patient with a pneumococcal pneumonia. • View All Pneumonia Multimedia Files


		• Chest X-Ray • Definition of Pneumonia • Legionnaire Disease and Pontiac Fever • Pneumococcal Pneumonia • Pneumococcal Vaccination (Pneumonia Vaccination) • Pneumonia • Should You Get a Pneumonia Vaccination?

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Pneumococcal Infections Sputum Gram stain from a patient with a pneumococcal pneumonia. Note the numerous polymorphonuclear...	Pneumococcal Infections Lobar consolidation with pneumococcal pneumonia. Lateral film. Courtesy of R. Duperval, MD. ...
Pneumococcal Infections Empyema caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae. Anteroposterior film. Courtesy of R. Duperval,...	Pneumonia, Atypical Bacterial A 53-year-old patient with severe Legionella pneumonia. Chest radiograph shows dense consol...
Pneumonia, Atypical Bacterial Chest CT scan in the same patient as in Image 3 shows the ill-defined, airspace infiltrate in the le...	Pneumonia, Atypical Bacterial Chest CT scan in a 45-year-old patient with Chlamydia pneumonia shows a right upper-lobe in...
Pneumonia, Bacterial Bacterial pneumonia. Bilateral airspace infiltration secondary to community-acquired pneumonia, subs...	Pneumonia, Bacterial Early right middle lobe pneumonia. ...
Pneumonia, Bacterial Bacterial pneumonia. Rarely, severe pneumococcal infection may be associated with necrotizing pneumo...	Pneumonia, Bacterial Bacterial pneumonia. A posteroanterior chest radiograph shows left lower pneumonia. Sputum Gram stai...

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