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nadu · Credits: 17500 My Scrapbook

Q.A30 yr old women complained of severe headache,fever with chills,malaise with dry cough. Chest X-ray showed bilateral patchy-diffuse bronchopneumonia. WBC count was NORMAL.
MC organism implicated is :

1. H.influenza

2. M.pneumoniae

3. Legionella

4. Pneumococci

troubledsoul · Credits: 1132 My Scrapbook

Seems like we got a legioneller in here..Hope he is the one...What abt others???

drpsg · Credits: 6178 My Scrapbook

THE CLINICAL FETURES ALL GO IN FAVOUR OF A COMMUNITY AQUIRED PNEUMINIA

AND THE MOST COMMON CAUSE OF COMMU.. AQ.. PNEU...IS M.PNEUMONIAE

troubledsoul · Credits: 1132 My Scrapbook

Dear Dr psg ,
The most important cause of CAP is bacteria ( 2/3 of cases ) and rest is viral .Among bacteria its strep .pneumonia the MC cause and not M.pneumonia...So I was wrong and I do apologise for the wrong info provided...

cheers

drpsg · Credits: 6178 My Scrapbook

THATS OK DR TROUBLE
ANYW AYS WHAT IS THE ANS EXACTLY THEN

drnikhil1 · Credits: 3863 My Scrapbook

yaar it seem to me as mycoplasma infection ... it is atypical pnumonia inf bcoz of presence of headache n typically normal wbc count.... also bilate patchy diffuse pnumonia points to mycoplasma inf .... i am not sure whether wbc count is normal in mycoplasma....but sure about that in h inf and strep inf wbc is high.... ligionella presents as a diarrohea and meningeal signs....so it is mycoplasma

cp_2004 · Credits: 216 My Scrapbook

hello troubled soul ,i think beter go with legionella bcos of normal wbc count

troubledsoul · Credits: 1132 My Scrapbook

Dear CP that was why I went with Leigeonella in first place..Any way i would like more reading on the stuff and would probably get an answer tomarrow...

drnikhil1 · Credits: 3863 My Scrapbook

yaar ..see what harri says

in legionella inf , generally there is neutrophilic leucocytosis

in mycoplasma inf, generally there is [size=18]normal leucocytic count[/size

so does that clarify the ans ?

clearly its not cap , its atypical pnumonia due to mycoplasma which is also k a walking pnumonia

afterall when there is ho diarrohea along with ss of pnumonia, then u think of the legionella ...thats what ashish gupta says

so .........mycoplasma is the ans

nadu · Credits: 17500 My Scrapbook

u r rt nikhil...............ans is mycoplasma !

good work !

thanx

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