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  • Mimivirus has been associated with pneumonia, but the Saudi Moumouvirus has never been found in humans. SDMV was the fir ...to pneumonia when a Mimivirus was succesfully isolated from a 72 year old pneumonia patient. The Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus has been linked to general re
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  • [[Image:Pneumonia.gif|frame|center|Photograph of a large pneumonia consolidation in the right lower lobe. From[http://www.vh.org/adult/provide ...d infection, osteomyelitis, and meningitis. Infection in the lungs, called pneumonia, leads to necrosis, inflammation, and hemorrhage in the lung tissue, which
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  • ...[8]]]. Some examples are ''Burkholderia cepacia complex'', ''Chlamydophila pneumonia'', ''Pseudomonoas aeruginosa'' [[#References|[8]]], ''Aspergillus'', ''Peni ====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlamydophila_pneumoniae ''Chalmydophila pneumonia'']====
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  • ...genes</i> is responsible for many types of infections including mastitis, pneumonia, and abscesses often found in livestock and humans. ...<i>T. pyogenes</i> is responsible for purulent infections like mastitis, pneumonia, abscesses and metritis. This bacteria is virulent, infectious, and pathoge
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  • [[File: foal r. equi.jpg|thumb|right|Foals can contract deadly pneumonia from ''R. equi''. (Photo: Anne M. Eberhardt)]] ...loss, and dyspnea [[#References | [1]]]. These symptoms can also result in pneumonia over time [[#References | [1]]]. Alcoholism and diabetes can be aggravating
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  • ...d heavy smokers. Symptoms of Legionnaires are indicative of other types of pneumonia and include severe high fever, chronic cough, shortness of breath caused by ..., cannot be spread through person-to-person contact, unlike other forms of pneumonia. [[#References|[2]]] Many people that are exposed to the ''L. pneumophila''
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  • Chlamydophila pneumonia (TWAR) is a recently recognized third species of the genus Chlamydia that c ...laryngitis, pharyngitis, sinusitis) increase in severity to bronchitis or pneumonia, symptoms can present in an additional 1-4 weeks.[[#References|[6]]] The s
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  • ...me and food poisoning. Endocarditis is inflammation of the heart valves. Pneumonia is the inflammation of the lungs. Toxic shock syndrome is caused by an exo ...is often found on [[skin]], mouth and [[intestinal lining]] and can cause pneumonia. <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i> is able to resist the host’s immune system
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  • ...the early 1880s, S. pneumoniae was diagnosed as one of the main causes of pneumonia, along with meningitis and bacteremia. Traveling from the host to the uninf ...on injection, and rough strain, that lacked this capsule and did not cause pneumonia when injected into mice. (20) The rough strain was observed to cause diseas
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  • ...ation and causes infections such as tracheobronchitis and primary atypical pneumonia. (2) The genome of ''M. pneumoniae'' is rather small only 600kb to 2300kb a ...pithelial cells in the respiratory tact of its hosts and very often-causes pneumonia. (2,3) It attaches to the tracheal epithelial cells by sialoglycoproteins o
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  • ...g medical conditions. This bacteria is common in Urinary Tract infections, Pneumonia, and Cystic Fibrosis. This bacteria is also the number one nosocomial (hosp
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  • ...airborne pathogen that ends up in the lungs after being inhaled and causes pneumonia and other symptoms related to hypoxia (the body is deprived of oxygen). Leg
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  • ...charge from eyes, decreased appetite. Advancement in infection can lead to pneumonia.
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  • ...lus bacteremia which can lead to the cause of localized infections such as pneumonia, visceral abscess, and tissue necrosis. Antibiotics such as clindamycin and
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  • ...cus pneumoniae is responsible for a myriad of bacterial infections such as pneumonia, meningitis, sinusitis, otitis media, and bacteremia. With the variety of ...t Streptococcus pneumoniae is crucial in lessening the mortality rate from pneumonia and other meningococcal illnesses. As the field in phage therapy and the e
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  • ...iages in both humans and animals, genital infection, male infertility, and pneumonia [[#11. References |[3]]], [[#11. References |[4]]], [[#11. References |[5]] ==C) Role of W. chondrophila in Pneumonia==
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  • ..., as disease that harms both humans and animals, as well as septicemia and pneumonia in susceptible individuals (Godoy et al. 2003). ...It also occasionally causes serious invasive diseases like septicemia and pneumonia in susceptible individuals. Although the epidemiology of melioidosis is not
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  • ...fections most commonly lead to legionellosis which has similar symptoms to pneumonia.
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  • Infants with bronchiolitis and adults with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have been linked to i 8. Lieberman D, Kahane S, Lieberman D, Friedman MG. Pneumonia with serological evidence of acute infection with the ''Chlamydia''-like mi
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  • ...cilia of cells in lungs, and causes coughs and more specifically, enzootic pneumonia (EP). EP is known to cause weight loss in pigs, leading to millions of doll ...of epithelial cells, causing lesions found in pigs infected with enzootic pneumonia (EP). (1)
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  • ...''K. pneumoniae'' can progress into severe bacterial infections leading to pneumonia, bloodstream infections, wound infections, urinary tract infections, and me ...pread through exposure to the bacteria via respiratory tract, which causes pneumonia, or the blood to cause an infection in the bloostream. ''Klebsiella'' infec
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  • ...vention, diagnosis, and treatment. Such pathogens include <i>Streptococcus pneumonia<i>, <i>Neisseria meningitidis<i>, and <i>Haemophilus influenza<i>. They dem
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  • ...' is a fungal opportunistic pathogen which causes the disease Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) in immunocompromised mammalian hosts, specifically rats. ''Pneumocys ...'Pneumocystis carinii'' since it is the pathogen which caused Pneumocystis pneumonia and, consequently, a major cause of mortality in patients diagnosed with AI
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  • .... Legionnaire's disease is difficult to distinguish from any other type of pneumonia. The four major methods for diagnosis are: determination of antibody level,
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  • ...e non-motile, though they sometimes have pili used for adherence. (5) ''S. pneumonia'' are found normally in the upper respiratory tract, including the throat a ...occus due to its role in the disease, pneumonia. It was termed Diplococcus pneumonia in 1926 due to its propensity to exist in pairs of cells, and renamed Strep
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  • ...lnutrition. Like necrotizing fasciitis and toxic shock syndrome, bacterial pneumonia progresses vary rapidly with a sudden onset of high fever. More seriously,
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  • ...ent is infected with Pseudomonas aeruginosa in their lungs, it can lead to pneumonia. This infections can usually be treated with antibiotics and are not fatal
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  • ...ntracted all over the body, and result in multiple bodily effects, such as pneumonia in the respiratory tract and osteomyelitis in the bones and joints. This ba ...>nosocomial infections</b> (e.g., urinary tract infections and respiratory pneumonia) and is especially pathogenic to immune-suppressed patients such as burn vi
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  • ...It is also a relatively common cause of community-acquired and nosocomial pneumonia in adults. (1) And ''L. pneumophila'' serogroup 1 alone is responsible for ...ionellaceae were not documented until 1976, when a detrimental outbreak of pneumonia occurred in Philadelphia at an American Legion Convention. (Fraser et al.,
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  • ...ph infections” can cause bacteremia, endocarditis, soft tissue infections, pneumonia, bone and joint infections, CNS, toxic shock syndrome, and even food poison ...es MRSA can be transmitted through the cough of someone infected with MRSA pneumonia. This bacterium is most commonly transmitted horizontally rather than verti
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  • ...ses (Phocid herpesvirus 1, Influenza A virus) often follow the primary PDV pneumonia [[#References |[1]]]. ...ty of the disease seems to increase with the age of the organism impacted: pneumonia comes with more severe emphysema and stronger diving impediments [[#Referen
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  • ...siella spp.'' found in hospitals are as follows: urinary tract infections, pneumonia, wound infections, septicemia, neonatal septicemia, and nosocomial infectio ...d with ''Staphylococcus aureus'', ''Kingella kingae'', and ''Streptococcus pneumonia'' [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2916600/ (6)]. The patient
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  • ...s could be generally mild (pimples, boils) or serious (Sepsis, cellulitis, pneumonia, endocarditis). The treatment of Staphyloccus aureus started in the 1940s ...body and cause other complications. If it reaches the lungs it may cause pneumonia. It may also enter the blood stream (bacteremia) and affect the liver and
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  • ...lasma pulmonis'' is the agent of murine respiratory mycoplasmosis (MRM), a pneumonia-like slow progressing disease that sometimes does not develop clinical symp 3. Neutrophil histamine contributes to inflammation in ''Mycoplasma pneumonia''.
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  • ...ear evidence for that APMV nor Sputnik virophage is associated directly to pneumonia or any other human aliment [http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/an
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  • ...munity-acquired infections influde bacteremia, endocarditis, osteomylitis, pneumonia and wound infections are less common. ...mon path of infection is the respiratory tract, where the bacterium causes pneumonia. By forming biofilms ''Staphylococcus epidermidis'' is resistant to antibio
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  • ...as measles, mumps, and parainfluenza (which causes bronchitis, croup, and pneumonia in children). Measles and mumps have only one serotype. Measles ranks wit
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  • ...sequelae of H5N1 infection are often severe respiratory illness including pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome as well as neurological changes lik ...ster outbreak. Some febrile upper respiratory illness has occurred without pneumonia more frequently since 2005, but this is likely due to increased administrat
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  • ...is, bacteremia and various diseases of the heart, kidney and lungs such as pneumonia. ''Burkholderia pseudomallei'' is thought to have biological warfare potent
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  • ...moniae'' was found to be the causative agent for up to 20% of all bacteria pneumonia cases in swine.The main disease associated with this bacterium is porcine p
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  • ...the presence of these foam cells, as seen in Figure 5. The fact that <i>C. pneumonia</i> has been found in these fatty macrophages is a strong indicator of the ...it begins to explain causality rather than correlation. Findings of <i>C. pneumonia</i> in younger atherosclerotic tissues is more powerful than in elderly tis
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  • ...e to cross the blood-brain barrier at 104 bacteria and can cause sepsis or pneumonia at 107 and 108 bacteria, respectively [[#References|[7]]]. The incubation p ...le:Strep pneumo epi.jpeg|400px|thumb|right|Incidence of childhood clinical pneumonia by country. From: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/5/07-048769-F1.jpg
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  • '''''[[Chlamydophila pneumoniae]]'', causes pneumonia.'''<br> '''''[[Streptococcus pneumoniae]]'', causes pneumonia'''<br>
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  • ...cies. It is one of the main agents of hospital-acquired infections such as pneumonia, urinary tract infections (UTIs), and bacteremia [[#References|[3]]]. ...able and potentially curable, but fulminant infections, such as bacteremic pneumonia, sepsis, burn wound infections, and meningitis, generally have extremely hi
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  • ...t pathogenic bovine mycoplasma in Europe and North America, causing bovine pneumonia, mastitis, arthritis, genital disorders, and abortion. The completion of ge ...iverse clinical manifestations, such as mastitis in cows and arthritis and pneumonia in young animals, genital disorders, abscess, conjunctivitis, otitis, and m
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  • ...hese toxins cause rapidly-progressing fatal conditions such as necrotizing pneumonia and faciitis and severe sepsis. <i>USA:300</i> causes an estimated 20-40 th ...ugh a small cut or sore. Other symptoms associated with <i>USA:300</i> are pneumonia, necrotizing fasciitis, endocarditis, and bone and joint infection. Treatme
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  • ...espiratory tract in children and infants more easily than adults and cause pneumonia and sinusitis. ''Moraxella catarrhalis'' enters the nasopharynx and can in
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  • ...org/wiki/Enteritis enteritis] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonia pneumonia] (5). ...and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitial_lung_disease interstitial pneumonia] (3). PMWS has a high fatality rate with infected swine. To prevent this di
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  • These bacteria can often be found as the cause of pneumonia in hospitalized patients, especially those dependent on ventilators in Inte
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  • ...e species cause a wide variety of diseases starting from foot infection to pneumonia. Sometimes it is hard to attribute a certain disease to a single bacteria; ...pneumonia is acquired from a healthcare center. HCAP(Healthcare Associated Pneumonia) is usually caused by a <i>Staphylococcus</i> species called <i> Staphyloco
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