A 61-year-old’s fever and cough persist despite dual antibiotics, revealing simultaneous bacterial, viral, and fungal ...

It’s a truth we often take for granted: the flu is usually something you shake off. You get a fever, aches, maybe a cough, ...

Highlights Walking pneumonia is a milder form of regular pneumonia. It can be contagious when caused by specific bacteria or viruses. Those at higher risk include the elderly, young children, and ...

Objective To assess the diagnostic accuracy of thermal imaging (TI) in the setting of focal consolidative pneumonia with chest X-ray (CXR) as the gold standard ... 21 It is not the precise lobar ...

This type of bacteria can attack one part of the lungs, better known as lobar pneumonia ... which can also be dangerous for babies. To diagnose pneumonia, your doctor will do a chest X-ray. They will ...

1 Tetracycline is now prescribed frequently for suspected pneumococcal pneumonia, especially in the ... woman with a 14-year history of abnormal x-ray films of the chest, was first seen as an ...

Only cases of clear-cut pneumococcal lobar pneumonia were included, selection being based upon a characteristic history, physical and x-ray evidence of pulmonary consolidation, fever, leukocytosis ...

They might also do an X-ray of your chest to look for signs of inflammation typical with this type of pneumonia, Dr. Pischel says. And depending on the exam findings, they may be able to diagnose ...

Imaging modalities include x-ray, computed tomography ... pneumococcal infections result in a lobar radiographic pattern. Both Legionella and Mycoplasma pneumonia, the classic atypical pneumonias ...

Pneumonia that fails to respond to treatment ... % of patients will have persistent radiographic infiltrates on chest x-ray (CXR). Clinicians are confronted with a complex challenge when this ...