Community-Acquired Pneumonia
Cards (28)
- cause of walking pneumonia
- pneumococcus, is a small, gram-positive, flattened coccus that often appears in pairs
- pneumococcus
- alpha-hemolytic on blood agar
- S. pneumoniae is part of the normal biota in the upper respiratory tract of up to _% of healthy people
- Infection occurs when the bacterium is inhaled into deep areas of the lung
- Other transmission of S. Pneumoniae
- The _____ _____ of the S. Pneumoniae prevents efficient _____, apparently by blocking the attachment of complement, with the result that the fluids of inflammation are continuously released into the lungs.
- Condition in which mixture of exudates solidifies in the air spaces
- This bacteria is resistant to penicillin and its derivatives: macrolides, tetracyclines, and fluoroquinolones
- Treatment recommended for S. Pneumoniae
- Atypical pneumonia where symptoms don’t resemble those of pneumococcal pneumonia
- Mycoplasma pneumonia is transmitted by _____ ____ among people confined in close living quarters
- Lack a cell wall & irregularly shaped
- Diagnosed by ruling out other causes
- weakly gram-negative bacterium that displays a range of shapes, from coccus to filaments
- lung-loving bacterium
- L. pneumophila is wideoy distributed in _____ ____
- Bacterium resistant to chlorine
- opportunistic disease affecting elderly and rarely in healthy children & adults
- DOS (Darling’s disease, Ohio Valley fever, spelunker’s disease)
- dimorphic fungus
- most serious forms of H. Capsulatum occur in pxs with ___
- Endemic to all continents except Australia
- fungus that is probably normal biota in healthy people, but in severely immunocompromised persons, it can cause a serious pneumonia
- Pneumocystis jirovecii is commonly called PCP which stands for?
- This fungus multiplies intra- and extra-cellularly
- Are traditional antifungals effective against P. jirovecii?