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- Postgraduate Medicine: Pneumonia Symposium - Series on community-acquired pneumonia, covering outpatient care, predicting which patients need inpatient or intensive-care treatment, and the lack of specificity in the "atypical pneumonia" label. Includes discussions of the various pathogens.
- Mayo Clinic: Pneumonia - A description of the disease plus complications, risk factors, diagnosis and treatment.
- Binax pneumoniae Testing - Features information about legionella pneumonia and s. pneumoniae testing kits.
- Bacterial Pneumonia - Consumer health resource center providing information on causes, symptoms, and treatment of bacterial pneumonia. From eMedicine Health.
- Radiological Appearances of Recent Cases of Atypical Pneumonia in Hong Kong - Radiological and CT features of SARS, with many sample images. From the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Organ Imaging of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital.
- Atypical Pneumonia - Causes, symptoms, and treatments of this condition, also called walking pneumonia. Descriptions of the organisms that commonly cause it.
- Mycoplasma Pneumoniae Research from Emergency Medicine - Scientific lecture on the relation of mycoplasma pneumoniae as a common cause for community-acquired pneumonia.
- eDr.ro - Pneumonia - Prezint tipurile de pneumonie, simptomele bolii, tratamentul i metodele de prevenire.
- http://www.droid.cuhk.edu.hk/web/atypical_pneumonia/atypical_pneumonia_c.htm - No description
- Army reports two new severe pneumonia cases - [CNN]
Wikipedia Articles
- Walking pneumonia - Walking pneumonia is pneumonia, an infection of the small air-filled sacs of the lung, that does not cause significant disability. People who are affected by walking pneumonia do not require hospitalization and are often able to continue participating in school or work functions.
- Lipid pneumonia - Lipid pneumonia or lipoid pneumonia is a specific form of lung inflammation (pneumonia) that develops when lipids enter the bronchial tree.
- Hospital-acquired pneumonia - Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) or Nosocomial pneumonia refers to any pneumonia contracted within 48-72 hours of being admitted in hospital. It is usually caused by a bacterial infection.
- Community-acquired pneumonia - Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a disease in which individuals who have not recently been hospitalized develop an infection of the lungs (pneumonia). CAP is a common illness and can affect people of all ages.
- Pneumonia severity index - The pneumonia severity index is a clinical prediction rule that medical practitioners can use to calculate the probability of morbidity and mortality among patients with community acquired pneumonia.Fine MJ, Auble TE, Yealy DM, Hanusa BH, Weissfeld LA, Singer DE, Coley CM, Marrie TJ, Kapoor WN.