Essays on Pneumonia

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is being recognized increasingly as a cause of community-acquired infection. The organism usually causes skin and soft tissue infection. CA-MRSA strains were first reported in the 1980s, and were responsible for an outbreak of infection in intravenous drug users in North...

Pneumocystis is a fungi which causes opportunistic infection. Species affecting humans are Peumocystis carnii, peumocystis jirovecii. Primanry infection occurs in early childhood, mostly a self limiting upper respiratory tract infection. Animal studies suggested that Pneumocystis is transmitted from animal to animal via an airborn route....

The patient is a sixty-seven-year-old African American male who presented to the emergency department with shortness of breath. On admission his height was 167 cm (5’5”) and his weight was recorded as 97.8 kg (216 lbs). This morning he came into the emergency department with...

Pneumonia is an acute infection of the lungs characterized by inflammation of the alveoli, which causes the sacs to fill with fluid or pus. Pneumonia has many causative factors such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi. If treatment is delayed or dismissed this disease can be...