While six primary organisms have been described as causative agents in
atypical pneumonia, C.
Sputum and serum samples were collected from patients with a high probability of
atypical pneumonia based on clinical symptoms and signs like fever, cough, dyspnoea, headache.
Four of the six causative agents of
atypical pneumonia are zoonotic.
A clinical report on cases of primary
atypical pneumonia caused by a new virus.
Radiological examinations may be used to correlate these findings, but the non-specificity of Chest X-ray findings in
atypical pneumonia and the fact that HRCT chest shows ground glass opacities for both fungal and pneumocystis pneumonia complicates this further.
The disease, which is
atypical pneumonia caused by a new coronavirus, killed nearly 300 people, out of 1,755 cases of infection, in Hong Kong during its outbreak last year.
* Is part of a cluster of cases of
atypical pneumonia without a viable alternative diagnosis.
In places hard hit last winter, any person with
atypical pneumonia should be immediately tested for SARS.
The disease is unusual in its severity, and patients suffering from this disease do not respond to empirical antimicrobial treatment for acute community-acquired typical or
atypical pneumonia (2).
This is a novel condition caused by the SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and is characterized by both an
atypical pneumonia and efficient nosocomial transmission.
In late February, the World Health Organization (WHO) and CDC began investigating a multicountry outbreak of
atypical pneumonia with an unknown etiology that apparently first appeared in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong as early as last November.
Yu also appealed to the international community to support Taiwan's bid to enter the World Health Organization (WHO), which initially excluded Taiwan from its list of countries from where it had received reports of
atypical pneumonia cases.