Other types include walking, aspiration, chemical, and hospital-acquired pneumonia. Fungal pneumonia includes more rare types of pneumonia. Pneumonia is an infection and inflammation of your lungs ...

As mentioned earlier, viral and fungal pneumonias also complicate pregnancy. Influenza viruses are of the myxovirus class, type A, B, or C. Most epidemics in humans are due to type A. The ...

Pneumonia is contagious when viruses or bacteria are responsible for the infection. However, fungal pneumonia and aspiration pneumonia (caused by inhaling food or an object into the airways ...

Pneumonia is a lung infection caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, or tuberculosis. Symptoms include fever, cough, chest pain, ...

A ß-glucan test looks promising but should be validated in the specific context of AIDS. The fungal cell-wall component (1→3)ß-D-glucan can be present in the sera of individuals with ...