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    Fungal pneumonia is an infection of the lungs by fungi. It can be caused by either endemic or opportunistic fungi or a combination of both. Case mortality...
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    beneath the skin. Systemic fungal infections are more serious and include cryptococcosis, histoplasmosis, pneumocystis pneumonia, aspergillosis and mucormycosis...
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    respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) can also result in pneumonia. Fungal pneumonia is uncommon, but occurs more commonly in individuals with weakened...
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  • systemic (e.g. rashes) symptoms. See Mycoplasma pneumonia. Atypical pneumonia can also have a fungal, protozoan or viral cause. In the past, most organisms...
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    Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP), also known as Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP), is a form of pneumonia that is caused by the yeast-like fungus Pneumocystis...
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    results in the fever, chills, and fatigue common in bacterial and fungal pneumonia. The neutrophils, bacteria, and fluid leaked from surrounding blood...
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  • increased risk of developing pneumonia. Bacterial pneumonia Viral pneumonia Fungal pneumonia Parasitic pneumonia "Pneumonia Causes – Mayo Clinic". www.mayoclinic...
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    Lobar pneumonia is a form of pneumonia characterized by inflammatory exudate within the intra-alveolar space resulting in consolidation that affects a...
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    types of pulmonary infections, including CMV pneumonia, tuberculosis, nocardia infection, some fungal pneumonias, and septic emboli. Schistosomiasis, a parasitic...
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    Aspiration pneumonia is a type of lung infection that is due to a relatively large amount of material from the stomach or mouth entering the lungs. Signs...
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    distributed nodules, the differential includes miliary tuberculosis, fungal pneumonia, hematogenous metastasis and diffuse sarcoidosis. Because the bases...
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    Bronchopneumonia is a subtype of pneumonia. It is the acute inflammation of the bronchi, accompanied by inflamed patches in the nearby lobules of the...
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    flavus is a common etiological cause of fungal sinusitis and cutaneous infections and noninvasive fungal pneumonia. Countries with dry weather, such as Saudi...
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    Hungarian physician who developed the stain. It is used widely as a screen for fungal organisms. It is particularly useful in staining carbohydrates. It can be...
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    Pseudallescheria boydii (category Fungal pathogens of humans)
    antifungal agents normally used to treat infections by filamentous fungi. Fungal pneumonia caused by this mold was the cause of death in three athletes submerged...
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  • pathogens uncleaned vapes and/or vape sharing: Bacterial pneumonia. Fungal pneumonia Viral pneumonia (from vape sharing). SARS-CoV-2: Shared vaping devices...
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    pneumonias tend to be either non-infectious, or mycobacterial, fungal, or mixed bacterial infections caused by airway obstruction. Acute pneumonias are...
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  • Viral pneumonia is a pneumonia caused by a virus. Pneumonia is an infection that causes inflammation in one or both of the lungs. The pulmonary alveoli...
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  • Eosinophilic pneumonia is a disease in which an eosinophil, a type of white blood cell, accumulates in the lungs. These cells cause disruption of the...
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    Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) or nosocomial pneumonia refers to any pneumonia contracted by a patient in a hospital at least 48–72 hours after being...
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    Usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) is a form of lung disease characterized by progressive scarring of both lungs. The scarring (fibrosis) involves the...
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  • Mycoplasma pneumonia is a form of bacterial pneumonia caused by the bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae. M. pneumoniae is known to cause a host of symptoms...
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    Lipoid pneumonia is a specific form of lung inflammation (pneumonia) that develops when lipids enter the bronchial tree. The disorder is sometimes called...
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    lasts for 7 to 10 days. Acute episodes of sinusitis can also result from fungal invasion. These infections are typically seen in people with diabetes or...
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    eosinophilic pneumonia Acute interstitial pneumonia Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia Chronic: Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia Lymphoproliferative...
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  • human pathogen that causes the disease mycoplasma pneumonia, a form of atypical bacterial pneumonia related to cold agglutinin disease. M. pneumoniae...
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    Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP), formerly known as bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP), is an inflammation of the bronchioles (bronchiolitis)...
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    Raju died on 11 September 2022, at the age of 82, from bacterial and fungal pneumonia followed by cardiac arrest, at the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology...
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  • had been hospitalized for more than three months from a rare form of fungal pneumonia, complicated by a long-standing but slowly progressing form of leukemia...
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  • known to be pathogenic to humans; their study is called "medical mycology". Fungal infections are estimated to kill more people than either tuberculosis or...
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