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bacterial pneumonia

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bacterial pneumonia [bak′tir·ē·əl nə′mō·nyə]
(medicine)
Consolidation of the lung caused by inflammatory exudation due to bacterial infection.


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But he spent last weekend in hospital with bacterial pneumonia, thought to have developed from a simple cold.
However, pneumococcal bacteremia was associated with most of the pneumonia deaths reported by Tilghman and Finland (4), and most 1918 influenza-related deaths were due to bacterial pneumonia (5).
According to them, Salmonella's notorious virulence is essentially short-circuited, but only after it has stimulated a robust systemic immune response to pneumococcal surface protein A (PspA), a vital bacterial pneumonia antigen.
 
 
 
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