Atypical pneumonias, a group of diseases relatively unfamiliar to most clinicians, are caused
by bacteria not normally associated with pneumonia and usually occur in patients with some …

Pneumonia is a common cause of hospital admission and mortality and is categorized
based on the clinical context in which a patient develops symptoms of infection. These …

Atypical pulmonary pathogens cause systemic infections accompanied by a variety of
characteristic extrapulmonary features. Clinically, it is possible to differentiate Legionnaires' …

Atypical pneumonia is a clinical syndrome without a precise definition, first described by
Reimann in 1938 [1], who realised that in some patients with pneumonia the clinical picture …

Preview When should you suspect atypical pneumonia in a patient who has pneumonia? As
the authors explain, atypical pneumonias have characteristic extrapulmonary manifestations …

The term atypical pneumonia was first used in 1938, and by the 1970s it was widely used to
refer to pneumonia due to Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Legionella pneumophila (or other …

The term atypical pathogens has been applied in recent years to Chlamydia pneumoniae,
Mycoplasma pneumoniae, and the various species of Legionella. The incidence of …

Atypical pneumonia was first described in 1938, and over time, Mycoplasma, Legionella,
and Chlamydophila were the agents commonly linked with community-associated atypical …

The atypical pneumonia syndrome is characterized by systemic complaints rather than
respiratory symptoms. The causative pathogens include Mycoplasma, Chlamydia …

Abstract 'Atypical pneumonia'refers to a clinical syndrome associated with pneumonia
(typically mild, nonlobar) and diverse upper respiratory tract and extrapulmonary …