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Alternate Name(s): Pneumonia - viral ...... Viral pneumonia is an inflammation (irritation and swelling) of the lungs caused by infection with a virus. See also respiratory syncytial virus ( RSV ) and influenza .
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Viral pneumonitis can affect all age groups and normal as well as compromised hosts. This article discusses salient features of pneumonitis caused by respiratory syncytial virus, adenoviruses, varicella-zoster virus, herpes simplex virus, influenza A and B viruses, and cytomegalovirus.
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1649731
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You are seeing this message because your Web browser does not support basic Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing and what you can do to make your experience on this site better ... The etiology of acute respiratory infections of childhood and infancy often remains obscure. ... Progress has been made,
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Viral pneumonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Viral pneumonia is a pneumonia caused by a virus. Viruses are one of the two major causes of pneumonia, the other being bacteria; less common causes are fungi and parasites. Viruses are the most comm...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_pneumonia
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The Medscape Journal ... Allergy & Clinical Immunology ... 3. LAK cells generated from bone marrow transplant patients, as compared to normal volunteers, are significantly more cytotoxic for cultured endothelium, which correlates with their elevated serine esterase content and phenotypic NK-cell proportion.
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www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/2855899
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D) The patient most likely has viral pneumonitis is correct. ... Key Concept/Objective: To understand the clinical characteristics of invasive aspergillosis ... Aspergillus species are commonly found in the environment, but invasive infection is rare except in immunosuppressed patients. The most common pathogen is...
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Pneumonia that is caused by a viral infection causes irritation, swelling, and congestion in the lungs. Also called pneumonitis (nu-mo-NI-tis), this infectious disease occurs most often in the winter, afflicting 1 in 100 people.
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Viral pneumonia is a subset of the pneumonitides, which were at one time called atypical pneumonias. In the past, all pneumonias were labeled atypical if a bacterial pathogen could not be identified with Gram staining and if the pneumonia did not respond to antibiotics.
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emedicine.medscape.com/article/808013-overview
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Viral respiratory tract infections are the most common cause of symptomatic human disease among children and adults. ... Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome is an acute pneumonitis caused by North American Hantavirus. Rodents are the usual hosts of hantaviruses, but some of these viruses also can infect humans and cause disease.
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emedicine.medscape.com/article/300455-overview
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