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Health Encyclopedia: Pneumonia Causes

Causes

Bacteria are the most common cause of pneumonia. However, pneumonia can also be caused by viruses, fungi, and other agents. It is often impossible to identify the specific culprit.

Many bacteria are grouped into one of two large categories by the laboratory procedure used to look at them under a microscope. The procedure is known as Gram staining. Bacteria are stained with special dyes, then washed in a special solution. The color of the bacteria after washing determines if they are gram-ne...

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Expert & Community Posts

Pneumonia and PPI's

By Jennifer Rackley , Health Expert

...medications had 30% greater the risk of developing hospital acquired pneumonias than the group... Read more »

Should People With Asthma Get the Pneumonia Vaccine?

By Fred Little , Health Expert

...in the community (versus pneumonia acquired in the hospital). In some cases, infections with... Read more »

NJ Requires Flu Shots for Preschool Aged Kids

By Kathi MacNaughton , Health Expert

...said that the new law will help reduce illnesses, hospitalizations and deaths in an extremely... Read more »

Medical Cost Control

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Anyone out there been hospitalized lately? Last year, I was hospitalized with a 103 degree fever... Read more »

Antibiotics and the Elderly: When Do We Say No?

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...friends and things were good all around. Then she got pneumonia. Regular care wasn't pulling... Read more »

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Health Guide

Pneumonia: Prognosis

PrognosisMore than a million people are hospitalized each year for pneumonia, making it the third most frequent reason for hospitalizations (births are first and heart disease is second). Although... Read more »

Pneumonia: Introduction

...treatment.Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP). People with this type of pneumonia contracted the infection outside a hospital setting. It is one of the most common infectious diseases. The disease... Read more »

Pneumonia: Risk Factors

...Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP)CAP is the most common type of pneumonia. Itdevelops outside of the hospital. Each year between two and four million people in the US develop CAP, and 600,000... Read more »

Shingles and Chickenpox (Varicella-Zoster Virus): Vaccination

...following groups should strongly consider vaccination:Those with high risk of exposure or transmission (hospital or day care workers, parents of young children)People in contact with those who... Read more »

Pneumonia: Medications

...MedicationsDozens of antibiotics are available that can treat most cases of pneumonia in or out of the hospital, but it is sometimes difficult for the physician to select the best drug. Patients... Read more »

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